813 North 3rd Street - Buell Woolen Mill

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St. Joseph Museums

Photograph: Image of Buell Manufacturing Company's Woolen Mill circa 1860
Photograph

Image of Buell Manufacturing Company's Woolen Mill circa 1860

Name/Title

813 North 3rd Street - Buell Woolen Mill

Entry/Object ID

2020.25.187

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Buell Woolen Mill https://www.stjosephmemorylane.com/3rdstreet/3rdstreet.html

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Subject Person or Organization

Buell Woolen Mill

Subject Place

Location

3rd Street

City

St. Joseph

State/Province

Missouri

Context

Buell Woolen Mill located at 813 North 3rd Street. In the early part of the 20th century, Pendleton Woolen Mills was one of five major mills weaving Trade blankets. The Buell Manufacturing Company of St. Joseph, Missouri, incorporated in 1877. St. Joseph was the gateway to a booming Wild West, thanks to homesteading and the Gold Rush. The Buell mill, operated by Norman Buell, his son George, and another partner named John Lemon, was well-run and successful. According to the county records of 1904, the Buell Manufacturing employed 175 workers and used more than a million pounds of wool a year. Buell products were sold in every state of the Union (45, to be exact). Buell products included far more than their Trade blankets. Their colorful designs were only a fraction of the products woven by Buell from 1877 to 1912. Since the Pendleton mill opened in 1909, Pendleton Mill was the only competitors for three seasons. The Buell building no longer exists, it is now occupied by Wire Rope

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PHOTOGRAPH

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Buell Manufacturing Co