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    C. R. Makepeace & Company, established in 1889, was a nationally active firm of mill architects based in Providence, Rhode Island. It was dissolved in...
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  • Winter Makepeace and Asa Makepeace, in the Maiden Lane series of romance novels by Elizabeth Hoyt Abel Makepeace, in MacGyver C. R. Makepeace & Company, a...
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  • Jonathan Makepeace also known as Major Makepeace was an American businessman and political figure who manufactured snuff and held political office in...
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    bank of the river, just north of Park Street bridge. The Monument Mills Company operated a textile business at these sites between 1850 and 1955. The first...
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    operated on the site. The oldest building, from c. 1860, was built by the Oriental Mills Manufacturing Company soon after its founding. It is a large three-story...
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    Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. Thomas R. Butchko (July 1998). "Edenton Cotton Mill Historic District" (pdf). National...
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    buildings still standing. The mills operated until 1932, when the Whitman Company went bankrupt. The complex was nearly demolished in the 1950s, but has...
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    Manoment Mill Company, which produced cotton yarn until about 1928. The buildings were sold in that year to the Delaware Rayon Company, which went bankrupt...
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    herself as Rebecca, Lady Crawley, is the main protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847–48 novel Vanity Fair. She is presented as a cynical social...
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  • Wolverhampton Wanderers and Millwall goalkeeper. 17 June 2024: Brian Makepeace, 92, Doncaster Rovers defender. 19 June 2024: Roy Ironside, 89, Rotherham...
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