page_title: Thompsonville, Connecticut
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Thompsonville, Connecticut / History
caption_attribution_description: English: "Copyright 1908 by O.H. Bailey." Oriented with north toward the upper left. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ill. of buildings. LC copy stained, brittle, torn, and missing small corner sections of margin. Annotated in pencil in upper margin: Thompsonville Conn. 1908. PM3 Acquisitions control no.: 91-30
context_page_description: Thompsonville is a census-designated place in the town of Enfield in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population of the CDP was 8,577 at the 2010 census.
context_section_description: Thompsonville was established in the 19th century as a carpet-manufacturing community. Orrin Thompson, from whom the community takes its name, built a dam across Freshwater Brook in 1828 and opened the first carpet mill in 1829. Thompson's first mill, named "White Mill", employed skilled weavers brought from Scotland. Initially its product was largely flat-woven ingrain carpeting, an inexpensive type of carpeting, but over time it added more expensive weaves, such as three-ply ingrain and loop brussels. The mill had 230 looms in operation as of 1846.
  Carpeting continued to be manufactured in Thompsonville until 1971, by which time most production had shifted to the southern United States.
caption: Panoramic map of Thompsonville with images of sights inset
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