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A Century's Thread: Bigelow-Hartford's Stitch in Enfield, CT

A Century's Thread: Bigelow-Hartford's Stitch in Enfield, CT

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Leroy

For over a century, Bigelow-Hartford, the local spinner of carpets and life yarns, ensured the knots of Enfield, CT workers never got tangled. Over 150 homes in town, laced along Lafayette Street, Alden Avenue, Hartford Avenue, Lincoln Street, High Street, and River Street, are a memento of this peculiar neighborhood, sewn in 1830 during the cotton craze.

The Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Mills Historic District, Enfield's yarn-threaded avenue, was sewn together in 1830, amidst the cotton craze. This district, now housing over 150 Victorian and Colonial Revival-era residences, murmurs the toils of workers and family tales of yesteryears. Running from Lafayette Street to Alden Avenue to the north, Hartford Avenue to Lincoln Street to the east, High Street to the south, and River Street to the west, these dwellings have weathered time, and the knotted intricacies of life.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons

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