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Botany Worsted Mills (center) in a 1997 photo. The mills are part of the Dundee Canal Industrial Historic District. Botany Mills was a Passaic, New Jersey, manufacturer of textiles, which was organized in 1887. It merged with Continental Textile Co., Ltd., in January 1927.
Botany Worsted Mills, Passaic, NJ, circa 1900. Mills was established in 1887, Forstmann Woolen Company following it into existence in the early 1900s. Samuel Hird eventually closed the plant in Garfield and established a plant in Clifton, located on Clifton Avenue at the corner of Paulison, now the Black Prince Distillery.
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PASSAIC NEW JERSEY. Located in old First Ward section in Passaic is the Botany Worsted Mills which opened in 1889. The mill is known as the first integrated woolen plant in the United States, and was quickly growing to be one of the largest.
Textiles History. Botany Worsted Mills Page 1. Passaic, New Jersey. A series of protective tariff laws passed by the Harrison administration in the late 1880s, would make it very expensive to import textiles and other items from Europe. Full implementation in 1896 loomed and companies took action.
The mill complex viewed from the south in December, 1997. / 40.87361°N 74.11944°W / 40.87361; -74.11944. Botany Worsted Mills Historic District is located in Passaic, Passaic County, New Jersey. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 26, 1991.
- Industrial
- 1889
- 26.4 acres (10.7 ha)
- 80-82 and 90 Dayton Avenue and 6-32 Mattimore Street, Passaic, New Jersey
Botany Worsted Mills, Bounded by President Street, Parker & Sherman Avenues, Passaic, Passaic County, NJ | Library of Congress.
Within two months of arriving in Passaic, Albert Weisbord’s UFC had enrolled about a thousand workers and was prepared to unionize the region’s textile workers at whatever price. On January 21, 1926, the Botany Worsted Mills fired a worker for “agitating” on behalf of the United Front Committee.
