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Watkins Mill

Factory on the Farm

Watkins Mill( )
Author: Potts, Louis W.
Sligar, Ann M.
ISBN:978-1-931112-22-2
Publication Date:Aug 2004
Publisher:Truman State University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $29.95
Book Description:

When Waltus Watkins, a successful farmer and entrepreneur, decided to open a woollen mill on his rural western Missouri property in the late 1850s, he was not just undertaking another commercial venture. By locating the factory on his farm rather than in one of the thriving nearby towns, Watkins was making a conscious decision to blend agriculture and industry. In so doing, he addressed a philosophical question that had been raised a generation before by Thomas Jefferson and others:...
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