Brainerd and Armstrong Co. Silk Mill

Brainerd and Armstrong Silk Mill, New London, Conn.

The Brainerd & Armstrong Silk Mill company, which had been founded in 1867 and showed steady growth in the ensuing years, moved into this building in 1885. It is now the site of a parking garage. (Sources: A Modern History of New London County, ed. Benjamin Tinkham Marshall [New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company], 493-494; John J. Ruddy, Images of America: New London [Dover, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 1998], 53.)