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Marker Detail: Brown & Sharpe Promenade Street factory complex circa 1940
Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: June 18, 2017
Caption: Marker Detail: Brown & Sharpe Promenade Street factory complex circa 1940's
Additional Description:
A small clock and watch business, started in Providence in 1833 by David Brown in a little shop on South Main Street, grew to become one of the largest machine tool manufacturers in the world. The company reached its peak in the 1940’s when the Promenade Street factory complex contained more than thirty-two acres of floor space. As a much smaller company, Brown & Sharpe relocated to North Kingstown in 1963. The remaining buildings were converted to office space soon after.
Submitted: August 26, 2017, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p396008
File Size: 0.794 Megabytes

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