1884 Sanborn Fire Insurance map showing location of factory in picture. Shoe shank company took over factory from pulp mill after this map was made. (This part of map is an inset to a larger picture separated by the dark border across upper left.):
Peterboro Shank Co., Ca. 1900
Brian Hackert, Reference Librarian at the Peterboro Town Library posted this on Facebook on Friday, November 8, 2013. Thanks, Brian!.
"Muffie brought in this old business form with a great picture of the Peterboro Shank Company, which made steel inserts for shoe soles. It was located where River St. is now, on Main St. across from Vine St., near the corner with Elm. As usual, it's hard to picture these old industrial buildings in spaces they wouldn't seem to have fit."
1884 Sanborn Fire Insurance map showing location of factory in picture. Shoe shank company took over factory from pulp mill after this map was made. (This part of map is an inset to a larger picture separated by the dark border across upper left.):
Peterboro Shank Co. factory in the expanded complex that began as the "Bell Factory" many years before (see the historic sign that's there now). Note foot bridge used by workers who lived on other side of Nubanusit River.
1884 Sanborn Fire Insurance map showing location of factory in picture. Shoe shank company took over factory from pulp mill after this map was made. (This part of map is an inset to a larger picture separated by the dark border across upper left.):
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