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| Painting of the Walter Heywood Chair Company, ca 1875 The manufactory scene in this painting is of the Walter Heywood Chair Manufactory on River Street in Fitchburg, ca 1875, painter unknown. The painting completed in oil, is drawn from a photographer by Fitchburg J.C. Moulton, of the manufactory on its River Street site from up on Haskell Street. Rollstone Hill is in the background. Walter Heywood had mde numerous attempts at establishing a successful chair manufactory, and after a disastrous fire in 1870, he bought nine acres of property along River Street for his manufactory. After his death in 1880, the business wanted for leadership, and 1890 was auctioned off to Fitchburg business, E.M. Dickinson for 60,000. Finally in 1861, buildings and the land were sold off to bygone manufacturers of arms and bicycle. |
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