. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. buildings, purchased six handlooms and the necessary apparatus complete and loaded themon a sloop en route for Albany. Thus by accident or by fate the carpet industry wasbrought to the Mohawk Valley. This was in the month ofDecember, but before the vessel reached Albany a severe spellof cold weather closed the river and they found their plantfast in the ice fifty miles from their destination. Nothingdaunted, however, they caused their looms to be loaded onsleighs and in that primitive fashion, after a journey of fiftymiles, arrived safely at H
. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. buildings, purchased six handlooms and the necessary apparatus complete and loaded themon a sloop en route for Albany. Thus by accident or by fate the carpet industry wasbrought to the Mohawk Valley. This was in the month ofDecember, but before the vessel reached Albany a severe spellof cold weather closed the river and they found their plantfast in the ice fifty miles from their destination. Nothingdaunted, however, they caused their looms to be loaded onsleighs and in that primitive fashion, after a journey of fiftymiles, arrived safely at Hagaman. With the Greenes came Douglass, William Perkins, andWilliam Wright, son-in-law of Mr. Perkins, experiencedweavers, but, like all of the others except Douglass, knowinglittle about the manufacture of carpets. After a few years of varied success at Hagaman, the firmwas induced by the advice of Mr. John Sanford and others tomove their plant to Amsterdam village and establish them-selves in a long, low, yellow building, formerly the mill site. < Hen a*o -1 0 THE NrJW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, ASTOR, LENOX A,VO Early Industries ^ 333 of the sawmill of Albert H. Vedder, the founder of Vedders-burg, and now occupied by the immense factory of the GreeneKnitting Company, After the change in the location of thisprimitive carpet factory, John Sanford became associated withthe Greenes in the manufacture of carpets, and continued amember of the firm for some time. The old yellow mill was burned in 1849. How well I re-member that cold, windy, midwinter night I It being my firstexperience of a fire of magnitude is probably the reason thatthe occasion has made such a lasting impression on mymemory. Even the weird, undulatory clang of the old Bap-tist Church bell, as its sound, borne upon the wind, reached theear, from the frantic efforts of some person unused to themethod of ringing the alarm, seemed to cry Fire! fire!!fire!!! which sound was soon changed to the harsh, mean-ingless sound
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