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The L. Q. White Shoe Factory, Bridgewater, Mass.

"... The largest shoe company ever to operate in Bridgewater was L.Q. White, starting in 1909. The company produced large orders of army shoes for foreign countries such as Belgium and Russia. Production during World War I may have exceeded 24,000 shoes per day. During the 1920s, L.Q. White employed more than 5,000 employees and produced 450 dozen pair of shoes a day in the main plant on Spring Street and the former McElwain plant on Perkins Avenue.

The plant was closed in 1933 due to labor problems..."

Bridgewater
by David R. Moore
Arcadia Publishing, Oct 15, 2003



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