. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. III I TOWNS—WESTFIELD another gristmill was built on the papermillsite. Amos Atvvater built a sawmill in 1820and Simeon J. Porter soon after built an Pope owned a sawmill that was builtearly on Chautauqua creek. Hiram Couch andMr. Pope later had a carding and cloth-dressingmill there, which about 1850 was changed to agristmill. Aaron Rumsey (1825) built a largetannery below the bridges east of the creek, andin 1840 William Tiffany started a tannery. The Westfield Marble and Granite Workswere established in 18
. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. III I TOWNS—WESTFIELD another gristmill was built on the papermillsite. Amos Atvvater built a sawmill in 1820and Simeon J. Porter soon after built an Pope owned a sawmill that was builtearly on Chautauqua creek. Hiram Couch andMr. Pope later had a carding and cloth-dressingmill there, which about 1850 was changed to agristmill. Aaron Rumsey (1825) built a largetannery below the bridges east of the creek, andin 1840 William Tiffany started a tannery. The Westfield Marble and Granite Workswere established in 1846. Samuel Nixon andhis sons. E. C. and S. Frederick Nixon becameinterested and carried on a business of rapidlygrowing proportions. Hiram Couch and Les-ter Stone built a woolen factory in 1848, southof the bridge, which was operated for manyyears. In 1852 the manufacture of agriculturalimplements was begun by Buck and 1853 Crossgrove, Kimball and Wellsstarted a foundry and machine shop. TheChautauqua Company was formed next yearto manuf
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