Dover Manufacturing Company Records

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Identifier: 6611

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Scope and Contents

Volume gives number and weight of beam, number of yarn and thread, and names of workers. Collection also includes a printed pay form completed in manuscript, dated March 27, 1824, from D.M.C. Upper Store to Eleanor Demeret for labor at Factory No. 1; and a receipt dated Aug. 15, 1867, indicating that payment had been received of Cocheco Manufacturing Co. as allowance on board of operatives.

Dates

1822-1898

Creator

Dover Manufacturing Company (Dover, N.H.) (creator, Organization)

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Biographical / Historical

The first textile mill in Dover, N.H., the Dover Cotton Factory was chartered in 1812 at a site on the Cocheco River and was known as the "upper factory" [Mill No. 1]. Further expansion occurred at the lower falls in the early 1820's and again in 1825 when a calico printing works was included. In 1823-1824 the mills were renamed the Dover Manufacturing Co. In 1827 the print works incorporated as a separate enterprise and became the Cocheco Manufacturing Co., which purchased the debt of the D.M.C. The Cocheco Manufacturing Co. was acquired by the Pacific Mills in 1909 and became the Cocheco Division.

Extent

0 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Includes notebook; on cover of notebook, "Yarn beamed on section warps;" order for wages from D.M.C. Upper Store to Eleanor Demeret for labor at Factory No. 1; and receipt for board, received of Cocheco Manufacturing Company,.