Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
1854 - Clinton

Clinton, a flourishing manufacturing post-village of Worcester county, Massachusetts, in a township of its own name, on the Nashua river, which affords good water-power, and on the Worcester and Nashua railroad, 35 miles W. by N. from Boston. The township was set off from Lancaster in 1849. Clinton is remarkable for its rapid growth, and for its extensive and peculiar manufactures, the more important of which consist of Lancaster ginghams, Brussels carpets, coach lace, figured counterpanes, fancy cassimeres, car pet-bags, and machinery. The most prominent among the numerous establishments are the Gingham or Lancaster mills, which are considered to be the most complete of the kind in the United States. The buildings are situated on the banks of the Nashua, in the eastern part of the town, and cover more than four acres of ground. About 800 hands are employed, who keep in operation 21,000 spindles and 600 looms, producing daily up wards of 13,000 yards, or between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 yards annually. The dye- house connected with this establishment is supposed to be the most perfect of the kind in the world. Capital of the company, $900,000. Besides the above may be mentioned the Clinton Company, with a capital of $400,000, producing annually 1,200,000 yards of coach lace, and 800,000 yards of tweeds and cassimeres; the Bigelow Carpet Company, (commenced operations in the fall of 1849,) which yearly turns out upwards of 150,000 yards of Brussels carpeting, of a quality hitherto unsurpassed ; and the Lancaster Quilt Company, producing about 70,000 counterpanes annually. The township covers an area of only about 5000 acres. It contains several excellent, schools, and three handsome churches. Population in 1850, 3113.

A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.

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