Name/Title
Atwood-Morrison Shop from Breakwater, Stonington CTEntry/Object ID
2002.0613.081Scope and Content
Postcard of Atwood-Morrison Shop from the Breakwater, Stonington CT with men in foreground. Sent to Fritz Goebel, Danville PA 1907.
Note included: "Atwood-Morrison shop from breakwater 1907 - bollards for mooring ships in early days. Believe tower torn down in 1935 possibly not til hurricane - perhaps someone has this information. In 1851 the first factory bldg. before the Civil War, manufactured horseshoe nails and later a company which made cheap jewelry sold to ship captains to be used as barter with the South Sea Islanders for copra. During the Civil War taken over by the Joslyn Firearms Co. in 1861, which produced carbines for the Union cavalry. After 1866 the bldg. was purchased by the Atwood Machine Co., makers of textile machinery. Merger with Plax to become the home of plastic btls. now Monsanto. Old times affectionately?? call the plant "the shop". Also home of Universal Winding and Hartford Empire. Expansion in 1886 included the purchase of two Trumbull St. lots for employees' tenement houses and the C. B. Crandall sailloft and wharf for the twisted silk factory. Atwood Co. incorporated as Atwood Machine Co. in 1896 and at completion of factory bldg. a reception was held."
Copy on slide 17-1
taken by Ingrid Fedderson, 1991
Index card done by Jack FixCollection
Dorothea Hewitt Gould Collection