Description: Horner Woolen Mills Company All Wool Eaton Rapids, MichiganClan Stewart Dress tartan 70” x 52”Horner Woolen Mill traces its origins to a milling company founded by C. C. Darling, Samuel Hamlin, and Amos and Pierpoint Spicer. They built a water power channel on the south side of Spring Brook near its junction with the Grand River in 1836/37. The Old Red Mill, which opened in 1837, was razed in 1882 and replaced by the Island City Flouring Mill. Darling, Hamlin, and the Spicers also built a saw mill and a carding mill. William and John Gallery eventually acquired the carding mill. Horner, a professional spinner from Yorkshire in England, bought the mill from the Gallerys. In 1883 the Horner Woolen Mill produced its first cloth for wool blankets.Horner Woolen Mill blankets became extremely popular. Horner received contracts from numerous ocean liner companies and the government. The company produced thousands of special order blankets, e.g., promotional blankets for automobile companies and the United States Naval Academy. Horner Woolen Mill also made the upholstery used in Hudson motor cars.Horner’s success required a major expansion. Albert Kahn, one of America’s leading industrial architects, designed the addition. Sixty of Kahn’s buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. According to Larry Holley of the Eaton Rapids Area Historical Society, the Horner Woolen Mill ceased operation in the late 1950s.
Price: 30 USD
Location: Geneva, Illinois
End Time: 2025-01-03T01:00:46.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Type: Blanket
Size: Large
Style: Vintage
Material: Wool, 100% Wool
