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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.
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- 80-82 and 90 Dayton Avenue and 6-32 Mattimore Street, Passaic, New Jersey
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.
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Dundee Canal Industrial Historic District, Beginning at George Street in Passaic & extending north along Dundee Canal approximately 1.2 miles to Canal headgates opposite East Clifton Avenue in Clif...
Historic American Engineering Record, creatorAllen, JosephKick, LudwigScott, Joseph- Significance: The Dundee Canal Industrial Historic District (DCIHD) is an approximately 1.2-mile-long swath of late-19th- and early-20th-century industrial and industrial-related resources that c...- Survey number: HAER NJ-131Photo(s): 60Data Page(s): 45Photo Caption Page(s): 10Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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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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- Significance: By 1899, the Botany Worsted Mills enjoyed a position as the first integrated woolen processing plant in the United States. It quickly became the largest operation of its kind in the world. It was instrumental to attracting other worsted manufacturers to Passaic and it established the city as a major industrial center.
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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.
