Closing room at the Knox Woolen Company, 1914.

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Closing room at the Knox Woolen Company, 1914.

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Photograph of female employees in the closing room of the Knox Woolen Company. In the closing room, the ends of the flat woven felts are placed on tables, and spliced or "closed" into endless belts by matching the many threads. The Knox Mill was the first mill in the U.S. to use this "closing" process of making endless felts.

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Camden Public Library

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Knox Woolen Company (Camden, Me.)

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The Knox Woolen Company began operation about the time of the Civil War and made woolen felts used in the manufacture of paper. In its heyday the mill made use of Camden's abundant resources: water power for the mill, wool from surrounding farms as well as wool shipped from around the world, and shipping by water to the paper mills upriver on the Penobscot. By 1905, the company employed 150 men and women with an annual payroll of $70,000. The year 1912 saw a three-story, 70-foot ext...