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Originally Posted by kcexpress69
Great thread!!  Can't wait to see Springfield!! Question: Those old industrial buildings they're renovating, What did they used to be?? |
The majority of the mills in Chicopee, according to my friend, were for textiles. In fact, one of his grandmothers used to work in one of them when her family first settled in the area. I believe the factories in Holyoke were more centered around paper mills.
And if they needed to house the looms for textile manufacturing, I guess that's why these were so immense.
On the second picture below, I zoomed into the original and the plaque says the building was a cotton mill built in the 1850s.
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Thanks for the comments. It was a lot of fun exploring these cities, especially as a change from the "old west" towns we have in California.