In 1895, Belgian textile manufacturer Joseph Guerin, who had established Guerin Spinning in Woonsocket a few years earlier, purchased an existing mill site as the location for their second Woonsocket enterprise, Philmont Worsted.
The Philmont Worsted Company Mill was a three-story, brick, industrial building located in Jenckesville, a densely-settled industrial and residential district north of downtown Woonsocket. The mill produced worsted and merino yarns.
After the Guerin Company underwent a consolidation in 1922, the operation of Philmont was managed by Joseph's son, Theophile Guerin, until 1923. The company carried on production until 1933 when, in the depths of the Great Depression, operations ended.
Worsted yarn production returned to the mill in 1937 and lasted until 1955 under the Sidney Blumenthal Company.
<i>Images courtesy of the Woonsocket Historical Society</i>
