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History of Waterville, 1800-1967
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History of Waterville, 1800-1967
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| Abstract |
According to Wikipedia: "Waterville owes its existence to water-power, harnessed first by a sawmill (1810) and subsequently by several other industries, which attracted its initial British, Loyalist and American population in 1870. Industrial development began in 1810 with the construction of a sawmill by a Compton Township businessman. Convinced by merchants in Quebec City, Joseph Pennoyer collected seven tons of hemp at his sawmill, intended for the manufacture of British ship cords. Inventor George Gale succeeded him in 1879, patenting his own mattress designs, which eventually made him one of the world's great inventors of box-springs and spring mattresses."
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1967
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[s.n.]
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Waterville, QC
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19p.
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| Language |
en
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| Citation |
Crawford, Cathaleen. History of Waterville, 1800-1967. Waterville, QC: [s.n.], 1967.
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