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Abandoned Mill, Pawtucket, RI
This abandoned mill is located on the Seekonk River on the other side of the river behind the Pawtucket Police Department.
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Repurposed Stillwater Mill – Harrisville, RI
[wzslider autoplay=”true” interval=”6000″ height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”]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 mills in town and at it’s peak employed approx. 600 people. Folks even kept their jobs throughout the great depression as manufacturing continued. The owner would put the production into inventory for sale at a later time. This mill also provided the material for military uniforms during WWII. In 1963 Harrisivlle and it’s community were dealt…
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Abandoned Taftville/Ponemah Textile Mill – Norwhich, CT
[wzslider autoplay=”true” height=”800″ lightbox=”true”]NOTE: There are two separate buildings in the photo’s. One is four stories the other is two stories. The rear of the four story building is also depicted. The article shown below in quotations was reproduced from Wikipedia and can be read in it’s entirety here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taftville,_Connecticut “Taftville is a small village in eastern Connecticut. It is a neighborhood of Norwich but has its own post office (ZIP Code 06380). It was established in 1866 as site for the large Taftville Mill, later Ponemah Mill. The village is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Taftville and as alternative name Taftville/Ponemah Mill National Register Historic…
