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The Industrial Revolution
Pine Creek, Tested as a Power Source
The test was run on the whole record the build holds: the county histories, the gazetteer canvasses, the topographic sheet and the fire-insurance map record, asked one question — was Pine Creek ever measured as a mill power on…
One Ground, Successive Uses: The Cut-Glass Site After the Fire
in the fire that destroyed it and was not rebuilt as a glass works. This pass followed the ground past the fire as far as the sources reached, and what it adds is first the fire's own fuller telling, from the Walkerton Area…
Selling the Means of the Next Industry
Walkerton's first factories did not only serve the town; they stocked the country around it. The banked gazetteer canvasses, read together as one trade, show a town selling intermediate goods — the things other people's…
Power, Changing State: Water, Steam, the Town's Own Current, Purchased Current
The sequence, dated at record strength, runs in four states. Water first — as a test, not a state: Pine Creek was never developed as a mill power on this ground in any record reached, and the town's industry begins with the state…
The Labor System From Inside: What the Record Names, and What It Does Not
Asked for named locals, defeats and settlements at the cut-glass, pickle and door plants, the record reached answers mostly with negatives — and two of them are hard. The hardest paper in the leg is modern and official. When the…
The Long Narrowing: A Removals Ledger
19 February 1919 — the Central Cut Glass works burns; 65 jobs; not rebuilt as a glass works.