mill, later made Kentucky Blue Jeans. [10] Seth Reed’s 1777 gristmill became a gun factory in the 1880s. Power looms for woolens made the first cashmere satinets in America, in 1820. [3] [6] [35] [37] Hecla had Daniel Day ‘s 1810 woolen mill, [2] [6] and Hilena Lowell ‘s shoe factory.