Day: December 8, 2014

The J.H.Sessions & Son manufacturing company was formed in 1861 in Bristol CT.  They manufactured hardware for trunks at their 273 Riverside Ave. location.  In 1907 a larger warehouse was added on.  This may be the picture you see from the road. In 1873 John H. Session admitted his son […]

In circa 1918 the privately owned Stillwater Woorsted Mill was built in Harrisivlle RI.  The Clearview River runs through Harrisville and was home to a number of manufacturing concerns through the 1900’s.  Many of which were mill types dedicated to manufacturing textiles. The Stillwater Mill was the largest of the […]

First let me apologize for the very poor quality of these photographs.  I happened upon this very cool site and only had my cell phone with me.  Because light was streaming in through the tree tops it just couldn’t handle the high dynamic range so I did the best I […]

The attached photo’s represent the once abandoned and recently repurposed mills of the Indian Leap neighborhood of Norwich, CT.  The best that I can determine is that these mills belonged to the Falls Mill Company circa 1860.  Power was harnessed by the Yantic Falls less than 1/4 mile upstream.  Unfortunately I […]