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Putnam, Connecticut, USA (Aspinock)
Nightingale Mill
museumofcthistory.org
"G. C. Nightingale and C. Allen built this mill in 1846. By 1860 M. S. Morse, who had built a cotton mill directly across the stream in 1846, had pooled his holdings with Nightingale and Allen. In 1861 this group built the extant dam (157' long, 18' high, originally stone but substantially built in concrete) to serve the mills (including the Rhodes Mill) on both banks. After building the dam M. S. Morse's involvement with the east-bank mills ended. Nightingale served as chief executive of the firm controlling the east mills while Allen supervised production as agent. A frame wing, since demolished, connected the Nightengale Mill with the northern Rhodes Mill. In 1870 Nightingale Mills employed 60 women, 59 men and 39 children producing sheetings and shirtings on 10,432 spindles and 205 looms. By 1889 control of the east and west mills was again consolidated, with George M. Morse as president of the new firm and Nightingale as treasurer. This arrangement (but not all the people) lasted into the 20th century. A warehouse now occupies the 1841 Rhodes Mill, a plastics firm the 1846 Nightingale Mill. (Roth)..." connecticutmills.org
 - Nightingale Mill
museumofcthistory.org
"G. C. Nightingale and C. Allen built this mill in 1846. By 1860 M. S. Morse, who had built a cotton mill directly across the stream in 1846, had pooled his holdings with Nightingale and Allen. In 1861 this group built the extant dam (157' long, 18' high, originally stone but substantially built in concrete) to serve the mills (including the Rhodes Mill) on both banks. After building the dam M. S. Morse's involvement with the east-bank mills ended. Nightingale served as chief executive of the firm controlling the east mills while Allen supervised production as agent. A frame wing, since demolished, connected the Nightengale Mill with the northern Rhodes Mill. In 1870 Nightingale Mills employed 60 women, 59 men and 39 children producing sheetings and shirtings on 10,432 spindles and 205 looms. By 1889 control of the east and west mills was again consolidated, with George M. Morse as president of the new firm and Nightingale as treasurer. This arrangement (but not all the people) lasted into the 20th century. A warehouse now occupies the 1841 Rhodes Mill, a plastics firm the 1846 Nightingale Mill. (Roth)..." connecticutmills.org){kind=small}