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Homestead mill timeline

By bella7846
  • Cunstruction

    Cunstruction

    The Old Belfry mill was built and is now currently known as the homestead mill.
  • Period: to

    add-ons

    Small structures were built around the mill as add-ons.
  • New owner

    New owner

    Zachariah Allen bought the old belfry mill and renamed it as the Georgaville mill.
  • Bankruptcy

    Bankruptcy

    Zachariah Allen went bankrupt from the panic of 1857 and his brother bought the mill from him.
  • Changing Hands

    Changing Hands

    up until this time Zachariah Allen managed the mill and this is when Moses B. I. Goddard bought the property and attempted to increase efficiency of the mill.

  • Textile Mill

    The mill became property of Manville-Jenks Corp and was a textile mill.

  • Shut down

    They shut down manufacturing and was no longer a textile mill
  • Period: to

    Different uses

    became a spaghetti factory and also became a fabric store.
  • Period: to

    industrial tool company

    Became the region of the industrial tool company
  • Sold

    Sold

    The mill was sold to a Boston based company and they had plans to renovate the whole mill.
  • Period: to

    transformation

    The mill was transformed into a 125 unit condominium.