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TM 182 c. 1900 Construction of the Lafayette Worsted Company on Hamlet Avenue. Founded in 1900 by Auguste Lepoutre of Roubaix, France. First French spinning mill in Woonsocket. Designed by Charles Loridan. Employed 117 at its opening; by 1910 employed 560.
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