Image: Blackinton Company, North Adams MA

Description: Blackinton Company, North Adams Massachusetts, June 2010. The Blackinton Company, founded in 1821 by Sanford Blackinton, Rufus Wells and J.L White, became one of the largest manufacturers of woolen goods in Western Massachusetts. By the early 1900s The neighborhood around the mill was a self-contained community, with its own school, jail, stores, post office, library and fire department, and the people there considered themselves be residents of "Blackinton", not North Adams. The mill closed in 1950. (Source: Oehler, Kay; Sheppard, Stephen C.; Benjamin, Blair and Li, Lily. "Shifting Sands in Changing Communities: The Neighborhoods, Social Services, and Cultural Organizations of North Adams, Massachusetts" and "Sanford Blackinton")
Title: Blackinton Company, North Adams MA
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Author: John Phelan
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