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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: June 18, 2017
Caption: Marker Detail: Nicholson File Company 1895
Additional Description:
By 1895 the Nicholson File Company, the largest of its kind in the world, occupied four acres of land on Acorn Street along the Woonasquatucket River. When in full blast, fifteen hundred dozen of files and rasps were manufactured each day ranging in weight from 10 pounds each to watchmakers’ files requiring 430 files to equal one pound. The company moved its operations to Indiana in 1959.
Submitted: August 26, 2017, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p396004
File Size: 0.911 Megabytes

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