Editing Claremont, New Hampshire (section)

===Industry===

[[Image:View of Ashley's Ferry, Claremont, NH.jpg|thumb|right|Ashley's Ferry, {{circa|1906}}]]
Claremont's first [[millwright]] was Col. Benjamin Tyler, who arrived in the area from [[Farmington, Connecticut]], in the spring of 1767.<ref name="books.google.com"/> Tyler built mills using stone quarried from his land on nearby [[Mount Ascutney]], and built Claremont's first mill on the [[Sugar River (New Hampshire)|Sugar River]] on the site of the Coy Paper Mill. Tyler also invented the wry-fly water wheel, which was the subject of the Supreme Court case ''[[Tyler v. Tuel]]''. His grandson John Tyler evolved the technology to create the Tyler Water Wheel and the Tyler Turbine. John Tyler's grandson was [[Benjamin Tyler Henry]], inventor of the Henry Repeating rifle, manufactured in neighboring [[Windsor, Vermont]], and used in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref name="vnews.com">{{cite news| url=http://www.vnews.com/news/14981521-95/historian-highlights-early-contributors-to-claremont| newspaper=[[Valley News]]| title=Historian highlights: Early contributors to Claremont| access-date=February 3, 2017| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702210848/http://www.vnews.com/news/14981521-95/historian-highlights-early-contributors-to-claremont| archive-date=July 2, 2015}}</ref>

The [[hydropower|water power]] harnessed from the Sugar River brought the town prosperity during the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Large brick factories were built along the stream, including the Sunapee Mills, Monadnock Mills, Claremont Machine Works, Home Mills, Sanford & Rossiter, and Claremont Manufacturing Company. Principal products were [[cotton]] and [[woolen]] [[textile]]s, [[lathe]]s and [[thickness planer|planers]], and [[papermaking|paper]].<ref name="Coolidge"/> Although like other [[New England]] [[mill town]]s, much industry moved away or closed in the 20th century, the city's former prosperity is evident in some fine [[Victorian architecture]], including the 1897 [[Claremont City Hall|city hall and opera house]].

In 1874, businesses in Claremont included [[Monadnock Mills]], manufacturing cotton cloths from one to three yards wide, Marseilles quilts, union flannels, and lumber, and employing 125 males and 225 females; Home Mill (A. Briggs & Co.) producing cotton cloth and employing 8 males and 20 females; Sullivan Machine Co., manufacturing Steam Dimond Drill Machinery for quarrying rock, turbine water wheels, cloth measuring machines, and doing general machine and mill work, employing 56 males; Sugar River Paper Mill Co., manufacturing printing paper and employing 30 males and 20 females; Claremont Manufacturing Co., manufacturing paper and books, and doing stereotyping and book and job printing, employing 34 males and 34 females; Russell Jarvis, manufacturing hanging paper and employing 7 males and 2 females; John S. Farrington, manufacturing straw wrapping paper and employing 5 males and 1 female; Sullivan Mills (George L. Balcom), manufacturing black doeskins and employing 20 males and 18 females; Charles H. Eastman, in the leather business and employing 4 males; Sugar River Mill Co., manufacturing flour, feed, and doing custom grinding, and employing 8 males; three saw mills employing a part of the year, 10 males; Blood & Woodcock, in the business of monuments and grave stones and employing 8 males; and Houghton, Bucknam & Co., in the business of sashes, doors and blinds, employing 8 males.<ref name="1875Claremont">Article in [http://gedcomindex.com/Reference/New_Hampshire_1875/097.html ''Statistics and Gazetteer of New-Hampshire'' (1875)]</ref>

The Monadnock Mills Co. and Sullivan Mills Co. were responsible for the two most prominent collections of manufacturing structures in the [[Lower Village District]]. Monadnock Mills' textile operations began with its founding in 1842, and lasted through 1932, shuttering operations following the decline of the textile industry in New England during the 1920s.<ref name="claremontnh.com">{{Cite web| url=http://www.claremontnh.com/uploads/pdf/Claremont-Historic-Walking-Tour.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920143605/http://www.claremontnh.com/uploads/pdf/Claremont-Historic-Walking-Tour.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-20 |url-status=live| title=A Walking Tour of Claremont Village Industrial District| publisher=City of Claremont| access-date=February 3, 2017}}</ref> By the 1920s, Sullivan Mills Co. had become New Hampshire's largest machining company, as well as Claremont's largest employer. Sullivan's Machinery division merged with [[Joy Mining Machinery]] in 1946, becoming Joy Manufacturing Co. Its founder, inventor [[Joseph Francis Joy]], stayed on as general manager of the facility,<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.joyglobal.com/docs/default-source/non-product-documents/company/our-company/joy-history_2.pdf?sfvrsn=8| title=Joseph Francis Joy: Character – Inventor – Reformer| publisher=joyglobal.com| access-date=February 3, 2017}}</ref> which remained the dominant employer in Claremont through the 1970s, when manufacturing technology had advanced sufficiently to hamper sales and productivity. Parts of the campus suffered fires in 1979 and 1981,<ref name="unitynh">{{cite web| url=http://www.fire.unitynh.com/chief_roy_t__quimby.htm| publisher=Unity N.H. Volunteer Fire Department| title=Chief Roy T. Quimby| access-date=February 3, 2017}}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and the branch was closed in 1983 and sold in 1984.<ref name="claremontnh.com"/>

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File:Claremont_NH_Civil_War_Statue.jpg|Statue and memorial to Civil War dead 
File:Claremont_NH_32-pdr_naval_guns.jpg|32-pounder (6.5") Dahlgren naval guns
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