By 1911, Woonsocket Machine & Press had 1,000 employees and was well known as a manufacturer of textile machines and power transmission equipment including drawing, slubbing, intermediate, roving and jack frames. The company was part of a consortium of machinery companies represented by a single agent that could arrange entire mill installations.

In 1930, the company was sold to the Whitin Machine Works of Whitinsville, MA. Operations were eventually moved to Whitinsville.

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With the construction of new plants in Millville and Woonsocket, the Woonsocket Rubber Company left its original factory on South Main Street in 1910.

In 1914, the Falls Yarn Mill purchased the two brick mills on the eastern side of the Woonsocket Rubber complex. These mills were used for the manufacture of fine merino yarns, such as lamb’s wool and cashmere.

That same year the rubblestone mill was purchased by the Model Dyeing and Printing Company, who operated there until the 1950s.

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In 1910, Nyanza Mills was incorporated with a capital of $600,000 by largely Boston and Woonsocket interests. The company manufactured cotton, mercerized and dyed yarns.

In 1915, the mill’s capital increased to $1 million and a plant expanded to include three new buildings. To provide electric and steam power to the Nyanza complex, the Manufacturer's Power Company was added. Before the plant expansion, the company employed 550 people. By the late 1920s it employed 838 people.

Erected during World War I and completed in 1919, the building at 235 Singleton Street was initially intended to be an extension of the Nyanza Mills. However, the end of the war and a downturn in production brought the decision to sell the property.

In 1924, the site was purchased by Masurel Worsted, which was incorporated with a capital of $1,500.000. The mill manufactured diversified high quality yarn, such as worsted, cashmere and hosiery. The BanLon line was their best known product.

The Guerin Mill complex is still standing. The latest businesses to occupy the complex are Imperial Packaging, Eco Friendly Gardener, Continental Logistics Transport, Industrial Oil Supply Co., and Wholesale United Corp.

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On June 26, 2003, fire engulfed the River Spinning Company mill building, which housed ACS Industries. The fire also destroyed the building which housed Florence Dye, located next to the River Spinning Company. In 2010 the site became home to the new Middle School campus.

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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a number of fires occurred in buildings at the rear of the complex. In the same span, the City of Woonsocket began the search for a site for a new middle school to replace the massive, early 20th century building located on Park Place, just up the street from the Lafayette complex. Eventually, the Lafayette site was chosen.

The Taft-Peirce complex retains many of the buildings that were constructed for the company during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Multiple small businesses are currently located in the complex, including a storage facility and some light industrial operations.

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The building remained vacant from 2002 to 2007 when it was converted into condominiums. Today it is the Gateway Commons Condominiums.

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The Jules Desurmont Mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It is currently being restored by the Plastics Group of America. Once fully restored it will provide an additional 240,000 square feet of storage and production space to TPG’s operations.

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