The Unquomonk Silk-Mills.
This is the only institution of its kind in the city. It was established at Haydenville, Mass., 1n 1849, and was destroyed by the memorable and disastrous flood of 1874. Mr. William Skinner, its proprietor, then decided to rebuild the mill in Holyoke, and in the following July (1874) it was completed. Here are manufactured machine-twist sewings, button-hole twist, organzine and cashmere sewings, etc.
It is perhaps not inappropriate to remark, in this connection, that the fine residence of Mr. Skinner, which now forms one of the ornaments of the city of Holyoke, was removed in pieces from Haydenville. It was the only dwelling left standing by the flood on that ever memorial May day.
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