Vernon Woolen Mill

ALLENDER, KETCHUM

Posted By: Mike Miller (email)
Date: 3/5/2009 at 16:15:22

THE VERNON WOOLEN FACTORY

On Monday last we had the pleasure of taking a tramp through the extensive woolen mills of Allender & Ketchum of Vernon.  Although a resident of the town, it has been over a year since we had taken a view of the interior of the establishment, since which time it has been almost wholly fitted out with new machinery of the latest improved patterns adopted to the most exquisite manipulations of the fibre. ***** What most interested us was to see the amount and variety of machinery, pickers, fullers. carding machines, spinning jacks, looms and dressing machines. They have three spinning jacks in operation and will soon have eleven looms going, with a capacity for turning out about 2,000 yards of cloth per week.---The Bentonsport Signal, Bentonsport, Iowa, April 23, 1868.  (In the Newspaper Division of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa.)

Source: The Annals of Iowa