Cloth Printing
In 1824, Andrew Robeson, arrived from New Bedford and established the first Print Works in the City, a segment of the industry that Fall River would in later years come to dominate.
By 1833 Fall River had 13 cotton mills, employing 1,200 people, with 31,000 total spindles (a common measure of total spinning capacity) and 1,050 looms.
The American Print Works was established in 1835 by Holder Borden, uncle of Colonel Richard. With the leadership of the Borden family, the American Print Works (later known as the American Printing Company) would become the largest and most important textile company in the city, employing thousands at its peak in the early 20th century.
Read more about this topic: History Of Fall River, Massachusetts, Early Industrial Development (1811-1865)
Famous quotes containing the words cloth and/or printing:
“What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hideyhole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luck Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there’s a message there, I don’t think I want to hear it.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)