Date: 1873
Two years afterward, Colonel Jewett and Judge Hines under took to manufacture cotton yarn by horse-power, in a frame building on Front street, between Rich and Friend streets.  After some time spent in experimenting with that, and with the circular saw in the mill, the spinning machinery was removed into the mill, where the manufacture of yarn by water-power was continued for some years.  The enterprise"was finally aban doned ; and the frame on Front street, long known as the " Old Factory," where the cotton spinning was first begun, vanished, many years ago, from sight, and almost from memory!