Just Spoolin' Around: Making White Birch Spools for Connecticut Thread in Willimantic, Maine

Title: Just Spoolin' Around: Making White Birch Spools for Connecticut Thread in Willimantic, Maine
Description: Article by Jamie Eves tracing the Willimantic Linen Company's spool-making operations, from its 1863 Spool Shop in Willimantic, CT (the former Jillson Mill) to its 1880 birch sawmill in Willimantic, Maine, and the mill's eventual 1902/1903 relocation to Milo, Maine under the American Thread Company; includes a 1881 Haggett family autograph book, an 1882 Piscataquis County atlas map, and a spool tumbler restored and displayed at the Mill Museum.
Creator: Eves, Jamie
Subject: Spool industry; Willimantic Linen Company; White birch; Textile industry--Connecticut; Sawmills--Maine; Willimantic (Me.); American Thread Company
Publisher: Windham Textile and History Museum (The Mill Museum)
Type: Text; Article
Format: application/pdf
Language: en
Coverage: Willimantic, Connecticut; Willimantic, Maine; Piscataquis County, Maine; 1820s-1975
Rights: © 2008-2026 The Mill Museum

Media: Making Spools – Windham Textile and History Museum – The Mill Museum.pdf