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The Thread City
The Thread City. Look at this photograph
carefully. It is the frontispiece to the H. W.
Rich's Thread City publication. But is this
actually Willimantic? If so, where was the
photograph taken? Also, can anyone name the
buildings? We suspect that this is the
photograph of another town, and that somewhere
there is a book that boasts a picture of
Willimantic.
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Did you know that Willimantic had a locomotive
and a ship named after it? The locomotive was
built in Taunton, MA in 1849 for the New London,
Springfield and Willimantic Railroad. Its
original name was the Willimantic but was renamed the T.W. Williams in
1856 for the company’s leader, Thomas W.
Williams. The SS Willimantic actually has a
fascinating history. Check it out on Google
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Willimantic
. It served in the U.S. Navy during WWI as (USS
Willimantic D-3549) for a little over a year.
After service as a cargo ship with several
different shipping outfits, it ended up with a
British outfit and was sunk in WWII by a German
torpedo on June 24, 1942. I found one reference
to a sailing in a New York Times edition from,
1919. In the photo on the right, the name
"Willimantic" is barely visible on the ship.
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USS Willimantic
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Courtesy of Vin Crosbie |
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Courtesy of Vin Crosbie |
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Saint Joseph's
Hospital on Jackson St.
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This is an early photo of Ward
"C" at St. Joseph's Hospital on
Jackson Street.
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 1925
graduates of Saint Joseph’s Hospital Training
SchoolThese
are the 1925 graduates of Saint Joseph’s
Hospital Training School. The hospital had a two
year, three month training program. The grads
from Willimantic are Mary McKenna on the far
left and Mary Moriarty on the far right. The
hospital served the community from 1907-1933
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Clark Maternity Hospital
<<click here to read Tom Beardsley's
article on the Clark Maternity
Hospital>>
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Doctor Mason's Hospital - 1922 |
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Doctor Mason's Hospital
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Windham Hospital DedicationGovernor Wilbur Cross at the Cornerstone
Dedication Ceremony at Windham Community
Memorial Hospital, April 12, 1932
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Main Street
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Willimantic's Main
St.
The
north side of Main Street is
pictured in this 1937
photograph. The Union Shoe store
can be seen on the right in the
Murray Block. Going up Main is
the A & P grocery, the Wilson
Drug Company, Bill's No. 7
Restaurant, the First National
store in the old Shea Block and
the Bay State Drug Company in
the Loomer Opera House Block
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The
Willimantic Gas
and Electric Light Plant
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Willimantic Fairgrounds
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Willimantic
Public Works Dept. GarageThis is the old Willimantic City Public Works
Dept. Garage. It was built in 1903 and was
originally used as a trolley barn for the
Willimantic-Baltic Trolley
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Park Spring
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Windham Textile and History Museum
The Windham
Textile and History Museum located at 157
Union/Main Street, has occupied the Willimantic
Linen Company's 1877 company store since it was
founded in 1985 by Laura Knott Twine.
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Willimantic
Elks Lodge 1311
on Pleasant Street
Nativity Scene
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Looking East from
Windham Mills smokestack
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View from Footbridge
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Unknown Location -
Posibly from Campground
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