The Nonotuck Silk Company Mills Panel

After the Civil War, Hill's Nonotuck Silk Company grew to be Northampton's largest employer and one of the largest silk thread manufacturers in the nation. The Nonotuck Silk Company won prizes at the Centennial and other expositions in the late 1890's. By the turn of the twentieth century, the Nonotuck Silk Company comprised many large mills.

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