Jules Desurmont Worsted Company Mill - Woonsocket RI
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N 42° 00.172 W 071° 31.336
19T E 291113 N 4653172
The Desurmont Mill complex contains three buildings and one structure associated with the 1907-1910 construction and subsequent development of the property.
Waymark Code: WMT920
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 10/17/2016
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The Desurmont Mill complex consists of a four-story Main Mill Building located in the center of the lot, a one-story Office/Storehouse Building in the northwest corner of the lot, and a small, one-story Guard House on Fairmount Street that is connected to the Office/Storehouse Building by a tall Entrance Gate.
The Desurmont Worsted mill was one of many Woonsocket worsted mills built by French and Belgian textile businessmen in the early twentieth century as a result of Governor Aram Pothier's efforts to attract foreign investment to Woonsocket. In 1931, a Belgian mill worker employed at the Desurmont Mill helped found the International Textile Union, which conducted its first strike at the mill.
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