The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . her east,—the first in 1852, the second in 1860. The former was purchased byD. T. Ingalls & Co. It was afterw^ard burned, and the present OakGrove Mill was built on its site. In the vicinity of the mills last named are the cotton-warp millsof the Globe Manufacturing Company. This company purchased theprivilege in Globe Hollow, previously occupied by the satinet-mill ofthe American Company, and in 1841 erected there a mill which wasused for several years in making cotton warp, and afterward sold toClieney Brothers. In 1853 the G
The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . her east,—the first in 1852, the second in 1860. The former was purchased byD. T. Ingalls & Co. It was afterw^ard burned, and the present OakGrove Mill was built on its site. In the vicinity of the mills last named are the cotton-warp millsof the Globe Manufacturing Company. This company purchased theprivilege in Globe Hollow, previously occupied by the satinet-mill ofthe American Company, and in 1841 erected there a mill which wasused for several years in making cotton warp, and afterward sold toClieney Brothers. In 1853 the Globe Company purchased the EagleHill Mill, erected in 1836 by another company for making satinet, andcontinued the manufacture of cotton warp. After the decease ofJoseph Parker, agent, the mill owned by F. D. Hale, on the site ofthe old cotton-mill of Richard Pitkin, became also the property of theGlobe Manufacturing Company. At the Highlands, once included in the old Wyllys farm, the CaseBrothers haveestablished their business. In 1862, A. Wells Case pur-. ....fc- ik^^^i^.m WTLLYS FALLS. chased the privilege, and a mill built by Salter & Strong, In twelveyears three mills were destroyed by fire and one by water. Two, builtrespectively in 1874 and 1884, are now in operation, making press-boards, binders boards, and manila paper. Two others are operated bythe same proprietors in the west part of the town on the sites formerlyoccupied by Bunces mills, in which the Case Brothers learned in boyhoodthe art of paper-making. The romantic beauty of the Highlands is sur-passed by that of few other localities in New England. On the south- MAXCHESTER. 255 east the hills arc crowned with forest; in other directions a full view isafforded of Manchester, Hartford, and an extensive portion of the Con-necticut valley. Here the stream falls sixty-five feet over the rocksinto the valley below, grass-covered, and enclosed for some distance bywooded bluffs, — a miniature Yosemite, admired by a
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