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|   The First 'Factory' - Boston Manufacturing Company - Waltham, MA
in Iconic Factories The complex of buildings, which now houses residences and the Charles River Museum of Industry, is where cotton thread was first woven into cloth via machinery, and is an important landmark of the American Industrial Revolution. posted by:  NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 1/17/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery E10.9 km
| Kennedy Biscuit (forerunner to Nabisco) Bakery - Cambridge, MA in Iconic Factories The Kennedy Biscuit Factory, now the Kennedy Biscuit Lofts, was where Fig Newtons were introduced and other well known crackers and cookies were made. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/15/2008 last visited: never |
 view galleryE11.3 km | Tootsie Roll Candies - Cambridge Brands, Cambridge, MA in Iconic Factories Cambridge Brands, Inc., a subsidiary of Tootsie Roll Industries, makes tootsie rolls, tootsie roll pops and many of the other well known candies for the company. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 1/19/2009 last visited: never |
![Image for [Fmr] NECCO Factory - Cambridge, MA](http://img-stage.geocaching.com/wmstage/waymarking/small/972b4f58-bdbb-49b3-a6df-92357f213320.jpg) view galleryE11.3 km | [Fmr] NECCO Factory - Cambridge, MA in Iconic Factories The factory here built by NECCO was once the world's largest factory entirely for the manufacturing of candy. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/18/2008 last visited: 10/19/2009 |
 view galleryE12.9 km | Fmr Carter's Ink Factory - Cambridge, MA in Iconic Factories This former factory building that still bears the name "The Carter's Ink Company" was once the location of the largest manufacturer of inks in the world. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 5/11/2009 last visited: never |
 view galleryE13.4 km | Scrafft's Chocolates Factory - Charlestown MA in Iconic Factories Maker of world famous Shrafft's Chocolates.
Located at 529 Main St Charlestown MA posted by:  nomadwillie location: Massachusetts date approved: 7/4/2011 last visited: 5/22/2011 |
![Image for Former Factory of [Walter] Baker's Chocolate - Lower Mills (Boston), MA, USA](http://img-stage.geocaching.com/wmstage/waymarking/small/5d198e9b-4921-4896-b9a9-3d45cda429d5.jpg) view gallery SE17.7 km
| Former Factory of [Walter] Baker's Chocolate - Lower Mills (Boston), MA, USA in Iconic Factories The buildings, now most filled as residential units, once was where the Walter Baker Chocolate Company produced it's world-famous chocolate. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 2/23/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery SW24.6 km
| Clicquot Club Company - Millis, MA in Iconic Factories The Clicquot Club Company's bottling plant now, only partially occupied by the Ann & Hope Outlet Store, once bottled sparkling cider, then ginger ale and other sodas, and the company was the first to use metal caps on bottles and put soda in cans. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 4/21/2013 last visited: never |
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| The Kendall Company - Walpole, MA in Iconic Factories This site was the beginning and headquarters of The Kendall Company, which made cotton batting and cotton absorbing products, then acquired other mills and made additional products under the Curad, Curity, Kendall, and Webril brand names. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/25/2012 last visited: never |
 view galleryS35.4 km | Ames Shovel Shop - Easton, MA in Iconic Factories Before Ames-Tru Temper, the Ames Shovel Shop at one time made at this location in Easton shovels in the 1800s for the building of railroads and gold mining, and controlled up to 60% of the market share in the U.S. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/23/2010 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW36.9 km | The Draper Corporation Hopedale, MA in Iconic Factories The Draper Mill on Hopedale Street, at one time the most productive cotton mill in the world. posted by: dremoto location: Massachusetts date approved: 10/1/2008 last visited: 10/20/2008 |
 view gallerySW45.5 km | Stanley Woolen Mill in Iconic Factories The site of the Stanley Woolen Mill, originally known as the Central Woolen Mill in Calumet Village. posted by: dremoto location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/23/2008 last visited: 1/8/2012 |
 view gallerySW46 km | Whitin Machine Works in Iconic Factories The Whitin Machine Works was founded by Paul C. Whitin and his sons in 1831 on the banks of the Mumford River in South Northbridge, Massachusetts. The village of South Northbridge became known as Whitinsville in 1835, in honor of its founder.
The Whitin Machine Works became one of the largest textile machinery companies in the world. Known as The "Shop" to locals, would operate well into the 20th century, long after many of the New England mills had moved South. By 1948, The company was opera posted by: dremoto location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/22/2008 last visited: 9/22/2008 |
 view galleryS51.7 km | Reed & Barton Factory - Taunton, MA in Iconic Factories Reed & Barton is a major designer and manufacturer of silverware, flatware, and holloware, and though the headquarters and design operations are still here, manufacturing operations here have been gradually eliminated. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 4/30/2012 last visited: never |
 view galleryS60 km | Rumford Baking Powder/Rumford Chemical Works - East Providence, RI in Iconic Factories Rumford Baking Powder, originally called "yeast powder," was made at this location by the Rumford Chemical Works from 1854 to about 1966. posted by: NorStar location: Rhode Island date approved: 8/6/2012 last visited: never |
 view gallery N69 km
| Velcro USA - Manchester, NH in Iconic Factories The Velcro brand is an example of a genericized trademark—a brand name that has become the generic term for a type of product posted by: Mountain_Wanderer location: New Hampshire date approved: 12/3/2008 last visited: never |
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