. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . -. Itoccupied buildings on Battery .street and during a partof its career did a large and It opera-tions in U D - ^^ PICTURESQ UE B URLINGTON. 155 In 1852 the Pioneer Mechanics Shop Compan}- was incorpor-ated. Its object was to encourage manufacturing and thus torestore the cit^- to its former condition of prosperity and to buildup a manufacturing business to take the place of the mercantilebusiness of the days before the railroads. This pioneer enterprise

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