On January 1st, 1936, the Amesbury Maples hosted the Arlington Cubs at the Lemoine Memorial Rink on Friend Street in downtown Amesbury to continue the 1935-36 winter season. Maples Manager Wilbrod Picard announced the details of the New Year’s Day battle between Amesbury and traveling Arlington on December 31st, 1935, to the local sports media in attendance.
( Photo Credit: Picard Family Collection )
The game was set for a 2:30 pm puck drop at the 150 by 85-foot rink at the rear of the original St. Jeans Club. The visiting Arlington Cubs knew that the Maples were a competitive organization through word of mouth around the hockey community in the northeast, so they loaded up before traveling north to Amesbury.
Arlington reached out to Harvard University hockey player Mike Hovenian, who had a stellar collegiate career for the Crimson in the previous two seasons. A few more local college hockey players in the Boston area with last names, such as Leveroni and Dutton, joined the Arlington team to bolster their Cubs lineup.
( Photo Credit: Picard Family Collection )
Before the New Year’s game against Arlington, the Amesbury Maples started the 1935-36 season on a two-game winning streak. Amesbury beat the Gloucester Town Team by the score of 11-4 in the season’s first contest to beat the Lowell AC team 11-4 later. Player-coach Eddie Nichols had three offensive lines, three defensive pairings, and an extra defenseman.
( Photo Credit: Picard Family Collection )
During the 1935-36 winter season, the Amesbury Maples heavily relied on two offensive lines for success that year. The “kid line,” made up of Alphonse Picard, Harold Roche, and Gerard Roy, would work as a trio, producing 53 goals and 34 assists, leading the Maples’ offense. The “veteran line,” or Amesbury’s second line of Harland “Chewie” Williams, Aurel Picard, and Hercule Cloutier, were no slouches on the ice, providing leadership and experience while producing a respectable 37 goals and 28 assists as a group.
( Photo Credit: Picard Family Collection )
Amesbury’s Albie Roy, Newburyport’s Henry Graf, and Exeter’s Ernie Burnham made up the third offensive line for the Maples and were tasked with the grinding efforts of shutting down their opponent’s top offensive lines. John Reddy and Jules “Zoot” Roy were in goal during this particular season. Reddy played for the majority of the year, with Roy filling in when needed.
( Photo Credit: Picard Family Collection )
The Amesbury Maples would go on to finish the 23-game 1935-36 season with a 14-8-1 record, scoring 140 goals while giving up 104. As a member of the NEAAU and standout regular season, the Maples were invited to the annual end-of-season tournament held at the original Boston Garden. In this tournament, the Maples defeated the Cambridge University City Club and the Wollaston Sports Club but, in later rounds, lost to the Melrose Hockey Club and the Medford Hockey Club, finishing the hockey competition that year.
On December 31st, 1934, the Amesbury Maples played the Maynard Hockey Club at the Lemoine Memorial Rink on Friend Street in downtown Amesbury, Massachusetts. It was a cold and windy Monday night, but that didn’t stop the hundreds of fans in attendance at the facility located at the rear of the St. Jeans Club.
Amesbury started the opening period up on the scoreboard 2-0 courtesy of an unassisted goal from John Lucy and Gerard Roy, who scored a goal assisted by Alphonse Picard. The visiting Maynard team turned up their offensive pressure, scoring three straight goals to end the period leading 3-2.
( Photo Credit: Picard Family Collection )
In the second period, Maples forward Albie Roy tied the game at three apiece, assisted by Alphonse Picard. The Maples would take a 4-3 lead when Gerard Roy scored his second goal of the game, assisted by Albie Roy. Alphonse Picard and Albie Roy both played intense games physically and were leaders offensively, both posting multi-point games vs. Maynard.
In the third period, Maples forward Harold “Chewie” Williams would extend the Amesbury lead to 5-3 with a goal assisted by Archie Cloutier, who was playing well and helping the Maples hold down the lead. Cloutier would figure in the final Maple goal when he set up forward Aurel Picard, giving Amesbury a 6-3 lead in the final frame. Maynard would get one more goal in the final minutes of the third period, but it wasn’t enough in this contest, as the home Maples defeated the visiting Maynard team by the score of 6-4.
This was a significant victory for the Amesbury Maples, who were previously on a three-game losing streak, dropping games to the North Cambridge Hockey Club, the Lafayettes out of Haverhill, Mass., and St. Dominic’s from Lewiston, Maine. The Maples would end the 1934-34 winter hockey season with a 13-6-3 record and back in the NEAAU postseason tournament for another year held at the original Boston Garden.
On the night of Monday, December 28th, the Amesbury Maples hockey organization opened its seventh season with a first-game battle against the visiting Hampton Town Hockey Team. The 1931-32 season opener was held at the Lemoine Memorial Rink behind the original St. Jeans Baptiste Club on Friend Street, with the Maples skating around Hampton for the 12-1 victory. Maples forwards Archie Clouteir and Chewy Williams provided the Amesbury offense, scoring six goals each.
This was a great start to the year, as the Amesbury Maples were coming off an 18-2-1 record in the 1930-31 winter season, ending as Essex County Champions with first-year Manager William Trottier and Head Coach Wilbrod Picard. That year, the Maples organization first appeared in the New England Amateur Athletic Union (NEAAU) tournament held in the spring of 1931 at the Providence, Rhode Island Auditorium. That spring, the Maple team lost to the West Point AC team out of Nashua, New Hampshire, in the semi-finals.
After beating Hampton on this day over 92 years ago, the Maples would finish another solid season with a record of 17-4-1. Amesbury won another Essex County Championship, good enough for another invite to the NEAAU spring tournament back in Providence, Rhode Island, in the spring of 1932. With the management of Trottier and the line orchestrating effort of coach Picard, this Maples team was building a dynasty in the 1930s, the most successful decade in the organization’s history.
Before the 1939-40 winter season, Amesbury Maples hockey team managers Everett Picard and Albie Roy mentioned in an article published by the Amesbury Daily News that the Maples were going to roll with a veteran-heavy lineup. In previous years the organization thrived on scouting younger talent that played in the former Amesbury, Massachusetts “shop” leagues, often poaching the best the area had to offer.
Since the organization’s conception in the winter of 1924-25, the Maples have put together competitive rosters but struggled against higher-ranked talent in the annual NEAAU tournaments often held in Providence, Rhode Island, or the original Boston Garden. During the 1938-39 season, where the Maples posted a 16-2 record, captured an Essex County League Championship but came up short in the NEAAU tournament. These postseason efforts prompted Maples General Managers to change their lineup, especially in goal, when talking about a veteran roster Picard and Roy had already planned.
Picard and Roy rolled out this veteran-laden roster of left-wing Archie Cloutier, left-wing Bob Ouellet, left-wing Henry Graf, center Alphonse Picard, center Chewie Williams, center Leo Le Blanc, right-wing John Fabelo, right-wing Herman Currier, right-wing Red Senechal, left defense, Harold Thurston, left defense Joe Dallaire, left defense Maurice Grodin, right defense Eddie Nichols, right defense John Perkins, and finally right defense A. Le Blanc. The only rookie on the roster was Amesbury native Wilfred Stuart who, by today’s standards, put on a Boston Bruins Tim Thomas effort In his first campaign with the Maples organization.
( Photo Credit: Amesbury News 1940-41 )
Before Stuart’s arrival on the Maples organization’s adult team, the young netminder had a successful first year of organized hockey with the Maple Cubs organization. The Cubs led all junior hockey leagues in Massachusetts with a 10-1 record in the 1938-39 season, and a major reason for the Maples success that year for the Cubs was due to the brilliance in goal of Stuart. Four of the ten Maple Cubs victories that year came via a Stuart shutout in goal. Wilfred’s effort with the Cubs and previous on-ice youth development can be credited to former Cubs manager Albie Roy, so it was a no-brainer for Picard and Roy to roll the dice and advance this next-generation phenom in goal.
The Maples managers looked like geniuses with the rookie Wilfred Stuart’s addition to the team loaded with experienced athletes. His often “stand on his head” efforts in the Maples goal proved to be a pivotal asset to a season’s longevity and further looks in the postseason with national recognition. After a 19-3-2 record, the Amesbury team would move on to the NEAAU tournament held at the Boston Garden. The Maples would beat East Boston 13-3, Higham Cove 3-1, Hyde Shoe out of Cambridge, Mass 3-1, and finally, the New England Hockey Championship clinching game where Wilfred Stuart was outstanding in getting this organization to the next level of competition with a 7-0 shutout over the Sacred Hearts club from Concord, New Hampshire.
( Photo Credit: Haverhill Gazette April 29th, 1940 )
After winning all four games at the Boston Garden, the Maples would head to Lake Placid, New York, to appear in the National Athletic Amateur tournament. The Maples were the higher seed representing the North Eastern part of the United States region. The Maples was granted a first-round bye along with the University of Minnesota which; both teams would face each other in the second round.
The Minnesota team was a younger collegiate group that showed up for the final National tournament with a full roster, whereas the Maples were constantly double shifting, with a roster of ten. The Maples did a great job holding the Minnesota team for most of the game, but the Maples didn’t have enough in the gas tank to hold off the pressure of a younger and faster transitioning Gophers team. Minnesota won the second-round matchup at Lake Placid by the score of 9-4, sending the Maples team home after the organization’s most successful season known to date.
( Photo Credit: Amesbury Daily News 1940 )
After the tremendous effort from the Maples in the 1939-40 season, two players who had outstanding seasons were being heavily scouted for higher roles in professional hockey. Longtime Amesbury hockey legend Alphonse Picard (center) and goaltender Wilfred Stuart were offered a chance to try out for the Boston Olympics. The Olympics were a minor-pro hockey team affiliated with the Boston Bruins and were to start playing as an organization in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League in the upcoming 1940-41 campaign.
The Olympics organization was founded by Hockey Hall of Fame builder Walter A. Brown a Hopkington, Massachusetts native and nearby Philips Exeter Academy student. Brown’s assistant and Haverhill, Massachusetts native Edward Powers was reported to have offered Picard and Stuart contracts for the Olympic’s inaugural season. This offer from Powers to a goaltender like Wilfred Stuart came at a time when the young player was in his junior year of high school, with Alphonse Picard being slightly older.
Stuart played for the Amesbury Maples for the better part of 14 years since joining the team after his exceptional 1939-40 rookie campaign. Wilfred graduated from Amesbury High School in 1941, where he excelled in ice hockey, baseball, and football. Per an article published on June 14th, 2002, Wilfred Stuart passed away on June 9th, 2002, at the Port Healthcare Center in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The longtime Amesbury resident was born on January 10th, 1921, and worked many years as a master finish carpenter restoring homes in the local area, like the Mary Baker Eddy house on Main Street.
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Also important to mention, Wilfred Stuart is a World War II veteran serving in the United States Navy. He left the Amesbury Maples team during times of war and returned to the club safely after his honorable time away to finish his playing career. Wilfred’s last season as a member of the Maples team was after the 1952-53 season. Stuart returned to the ice for one final time during the 1971-72 season when he and other Maples legends were honored at Hockey Night held at the Exeter Academy rink. Others who were honored on this night, along with Stuart, were Albie Roy, Leo LeBlanc, Alphonse Picard, Eddie Nichols, and Harold “Fuzzy” Thurston.
It’s no myth that the Amesbury, Massachusetts, area produced some of the best hockey players in New England. With the successful High School programs and adult Maples hockey teams, many players thrived here to have amazing hockey careers living and working in our community.
One of the stronger positions when it comes to developing and building a winning team came from the last line of defense, and that was goaltending. Whether it was past netminders such as John Reddy, Earl Ryan, Wilfred Stuart, Arthur Gaudet, Raymond Roy, or Dick Dupere, everything in the crease started with the tremendous playing style of Raoul “Chiefie” Lemoine.
( Photo Credit: 1926 Amesbury High School Yearbook / Amesbury Town Library )
Raoul was born in Amesbury in 1908 and was a multi-sport athlete in his adolescence. Lemoine played baseball, football, and ice hockey in his high school career, excelling at all three sports activities. Raoul started his Amesbury High School playing days as a sophomore and played defense and forward.
During Lemoine’s senior year at AHS, the athletic council added ice hockey as a major sport and played their home games at Patten’s Pond on the mobile rink located near Main Street. The Amesbury team went 4-2-1 in their first official season as a recognized high school sport. Below are the results from the Amesbury High School hockey team’s 1925-26 regular season.
Amesbury 0 – Swampscott 4
Amesbury 0 – Essex Aggies 1
Amesbury 2 – Manning 1
Amesbury 9 – Portsmouth 0
Amesbury 1 – Manning 0
Amesbury 1 – Portsmouth 1
Amesbury 3 – Portsmouth 0
( Photo Credit: 1926 Amesbury High School Yearbook )
Former Amesbury Maples hockey player Albert “Albie” Roy was the driving force in making the Amesbury High School hockey program an actual thing in the late 1920s. Roy believed developing the next best Maples players should come from younger men learning the game in the local school system. In 1940 Albie Roy was awarded a medal from the Northeast Amateur Athletic Union for promoting the game of hockey among boys of high school age. Roy was one of the pioneers of hockey development in the town of Amesbury back in the day. He would often drive around in his pickup truck, giving rides to the Amesbury Park ponds for a day of teaching the game to kids when the weather and ice were suitable.
Although Lemoine played either defense or forward during his Amesbury High School years, Raoul was determined to make the higher Amesbury Maples team. With the adult Amesbury sexlet already fully staffed with defenseman and forwards, Lemoine saw his opportunity to make the team but with an unusual hockey career-changing decision. Raoul went in goal after the departure of netminder Issie Lassard and used his former high school baseball playing days to not only be strong on his feet but also seemingly fit to react to fast situations with his hands.
( Photo Credit: Amesbury News 1924-25 )
After graduating from Amesbury High in 1926, Lemoine joined the Amesbury Maples full time and would start the organization’s cornerstone of building a winning team from the goal out. In Raoul’s first campaign with the Maples club, the netminder went 2-2-1 in the short regular season as outdoor ice here in our New England location was tough to manage. Below is the 1926-27 regular season schedule in Raoul Lemoine’s Maples rookie season.
Amesbury Maples 0 – Biddle & Smart Company 3
Amesbury Maples 3 – Biddle & Smart Plant Five 2
Amesbury Maples 1 – Biddle & Smart Plant Three 0
Amesbury Maples 0 – Amesbury High School 2
Amesbury Maples 6 – Biddle & Smart Plant Three 2
Although the 1926-27 season wasn’t a winning campaign, Maples Owners and General Managers Armand Hudon and Emilien “Mickey” Jutras believed in the young netminding of Lemoine and decided to stick with him for another year. As a backup in case Raoul didn’t make the Maples team, they could always fall back on the efforts of Albie Roy to man the nets. Roy’s efforts on the ice were better seen as a forward or defenseman, but that “break glass in case of emergency” backup was always available when needed.
In Lemoine’s second season with the Maples (1927-28), he and the rest of his teammates moved on from the mobile rink set up during the winters at Pattens Pond to a little more sustainable ice over in the old “cow fields” at the bottom of Aubin Street on the old ground of the Biddle and Smart Carriage and Sleigh company. The Maples would call the sheet of ice home for three seasons on the Biddle & Smart sheet of ice.
In my research, it’s rumored that the Biddle & Smart company struggled during the Great Depression and cut back on funding for the rink on their property. Another rumor I’ve heard was that the Biddle & Smart Company was so bitter at Hudon and Jutras for scouting their players and signing them from the local manufacturing shops but also because they assembled a team with the talent to beat all their affiliated factory teams.
( Photo Credit: Amesbury News 1925-26 )
After seemingly getting booted from the lower Aubin Street Biddle & Smart location, the Franco American Social Club, the St. Jean Baptiste of Amesbury, came calling with the available property for Maples home games. Maples players, alongside local Amesbury volunteers, constructed a new rink 150 feet by 85 feet. Among the amazing volunteer’s Maples Teammates Eddie Nichols, Albie Roy, Everett Picard, Harold “Fuzzy” Thurston, Aurel Picard, Tom “Ike” Wall, Chewie Williams, John Reddy, and the young upcoming Maples Legend Hercule “Archie” Cloutier were all part in the blood sweat and tears to get a home sheet ready for the forthcoming 1930-31 winter season.
Lemoine, teammates, and Amesbury residents put in a solid effort to get the new home rink of the Amesbury Maples done just in time at the new location to make ice. Behind the original St. Jean’s Club, it was very tight quarters but enough room to play competitive hockey via the standards of that timeframe. The first year of this new outdoor hockey facility would also come at a tragic loss to one of the Amesbury Maples own.
After having a successful 1930-31 regular season, tragedy struck the Maples organization in the middle of the year. In a “pickup” game or practice session on the Friend Street sheet of ice, goaltender Lemoine took a deflected puck to the face. Raoul went to the Amesbury Hospital to seek attention for his injury. While at the Amesbury Hospital, Lemoine got stitches to patch up his one-inch gash near his eye. Raoul would have a life-threatening setback while being in the care of hospital attendees. Lemoine’s injury happened on January 8th, 1931, and he stayed at the Amesbury Hospital facility until his death on January 17th.
After the passing of Raoul, founding members and athletic town officials named the outdoor facility the Lemoine Memorial rink and would be at the Friend Street location up to the 1947-48 winter season. In 1951 Raoul “Chiefie” Lemoine’s name was honored with an award given to the most valuable Amesbury High School hockey player each year.
Longtime Amesbury, Massachusetts resident and Amesbury Maples hockey player Hercule “Archie” Cloutier was a legend as soon as he stepped on the ice for the town team during the winter of 1928-29. Known as an offensively gifted player, Cloutier’s skating was by far his greatest attribute throughout his decades of on-ice service.
While Cloutier could wow, nearby spectators with how he worked up and down the ice cutting his way through oncoming traffic, he played the game the right way. Archie wasn’t an overly aggressive player in his decades on the ice with his Maples team. With him only registering nine penalties in his Maples career, he would be known today in National Hockey League terms as an annual Lady Byng Trophy winner. Every year at the NHL Awards, the Lady Byng Trophy is given to the player who displays the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability, per the Official Wikipedia Page.
( Photo Credit: Amesbury News )
Throughout Cloutiers Maples hockey career, the former Amesbury resident was part of the hockey team’s highest moments in the organization’s early years. Cloutier and teammates would travel long distances from our community to take on an opponent. In many well-known newspapers of the past, I’ve read the mention of the Amesbury team being one of the United States’ best amateur clubs.
In Archie’s 35-year hockey career, he played in all of the NEAAU tournaments held in the early years in Providence at the Rhode Island Auditorium. During the start of the Great Depression, the Rhode Island Auditorium owners were going through financial ruin, and the annual NEAAU tournament was relocated north to Boston, Massachusetts, and held at the original Boston Garden.
( Photo Credit: Alphonse Picard / Picard Family Collection )
In the 1937-38 regular season, after a 15-4-1 record, Cloutier ended the campaign as the Maples leading scorer posting 17-18-35 numbers in 20 games. The Maples would attend the NEAAU tournament in the Spring of 1938 at the Boston Garden. After beating the Waltham Rangers 5-3 in the first round, the Maples would lose 4-3 in the second round to the Massena, New York Scarlets.
The following season, Managed by Wilbrod Picard, head coach by Louis Casavant, and captained by Eddie Nichols, the Amesbury club, was on a mission to get better after knowing they could play with some of the best United States hockey teams. In 1938-39 the Maples won the Essex County Championship with a regular season record of 16-2-0 but was unsuccessful in the return to the NEAAU playoff tournament that spring. Cloutier would take a bit of a decrease in offensive production, posting 8-14-22 numbers in 18 games that year.
In the 1939-40 season, the Amesbury Maples would go on to have their best regular season and postseason in the organization’s history. Before the winter campaign began, the organization would make changes in management as Cloutier and teammates continued to find different systems of success to reach higher level accolades. New team managers Albie Roy and Everett Picard brought new voices to the organization and a new direction.
( Photo Credit: Amesbury News )
Cloutier and Maples teammates would finish the 1939-40 season with a 19-4-2 regular season record capturing the team’s second straight Essex County Championship. Cloutier, who missed several games in the organization’s best year, finished the season with 12-29-41 numbers. The Maples would appear in the NEAAU tournament held at the Boston Garden and were not going home until the mission was successful.
In the Spring of 1940, Cloutier and Maples club would go on to sweep all four rounds at the Boston Garden, beating East Boston 13-3, Higham Cove 3-1, Hyde Shoe Cambridge, Mass 3-1, and in the final game shutout the powerful Concord, NH team 7-0. For the first time and the only time in Maples history, the team from Amesbury was headed to Lake Placid, New York, to compete against the U.S. nation’s best.
Archie and Maples team would take the long journey to upstate New York for the daunting task of becoming National Champions. Many Like 32-year-old Cloutier, at the time of the team’s highest success, was among many other aging veterans on the Maples Squad. Cloutier and his Maples team were severely outmatched and outmanned going into the National Ice Hockey Championships held by the United States Amateur Athletic Union in Lake Placid.
In the 1940 elimination tournament, the Amesbury Maples were fortunate to have the first-round bye. The first team Cloutier and the Maples faced was the younger and full bench of the University of Minnesota. Back then, the Maples would operate with a roster of 11-14 players every year, so playing a team of early 20-year-olds with 19 skaters and one goaltender was already a disadvantage.
In the second round of the NAAU tournament, Cloutier and the Maples club did a decent job keeping up with the much faster and more skilled Minnesota team. In the first two periods, the Maples held off the Gophers the best they could. In the final period, Minnesota turned it up and relied on a few rested players to clamp down on a tired Amesbury team. Minnesota would take the game and Maples dreams away with a 9-4 victory in Lake Placid and capture the 1940 National Championship after winning the tournament’s final round.
Archie would continue to be a passionate hockey player and committed to his Maples organization even though he’d never see the team’s success reach the level of the 1939-40 season. Cloutier would remain relevant in the Maple organization’s offensive production in his late 30s and crossing into his 40s. At the age of 49, Cloutier scored a career-high of four goals in one game in the 1957-58 season against the Bradford Vikings at the Exeter Academy rink where the Maples often played in Exeter, New Hampshire. Our area of New England has a funny way of being temperamental when talking about yearly winter seasons. When outdoor ice couldn’t be used at the local Powwow Arena or Stuarts Rinks, the Maples and high school teams would often travel to Exeter or Lynn Arena in Lynn, Mass., for favorable indoor ice to get regular season and postseason games in.
Cloutier would hang up his skates after dedicating 35 years of his life on the year of his 35th wedding anniversary to his wife, Cora. At 56, Cloutier retired from the game he loved after getting a scare back in 1963. An unknown local newspaper article written by local sports writer Ed Gleed mentioned that a game he played against North Reading, where he accrued a significant back injury, was the first of many thoughts to walk away from the game. This injury shook Archie and his family pretty hard for an aging hockey veteran, but since that injury, Cloutier’s wife and family were heavy influencers on his decision as he looked to transition away from the game.
( Photo Credit: Alphonse Picard / Picard Family Collection )
Among all the wonderful times as a player for the Amesbury Maples team, Cloutier was also the team’s head coach and team manager when the void needed to be filled. As a bench boss or player-coach, in the 1956-57 season, Archie orchestrated a 21-3-1 record in his only season in the coaching role.
In the mentioned article by Ed Gleed, competitive hockey was over for Cloutier following the 1964-65 season, but his passion for skating would never end until his death. Before passing away at the age of 58, Archie would take advantage of the several waterways in our Amesbury community during the winter seasons and just skate to keep the legs moving and that sense of game feeling he once had but this time at a safer pace and without contact.
On January 14th, 1967, the hockey world and Amesbury, Massachusetts, the community lost a legend as thousands mourned the loss of Hercule “Archie” Cloutier upon hearing about his passing at his home on this particular Saturday morning. An outstanding player and another Maples member who benefitted from the local development of the game back in the day to keep generations of hockey players involved.
( Photo Credit: Alphonse Picard / Picard Family Collection )
Cloutier was a quiet man on and off the ice but was a leader throughout his career and gave back to younger players looking for advice. As a diehard American citizen, I was thrilled to learn that Cloutier, born in Quebec, Canada, served in the United States armed forces. During World War II, Cloutier stepped away from his family and the game of hockey to enlist in the Air Force. An honorable thing to do is serve a country you weren’t born in. To me, that’s earning citizenship the hard way and should be recognized even by today’s standards.
Archie was a longtime employee of the Amesbury Fibre Company, where he served as a foreman. The old Amesbury Fibre Company was located on the corner of High Street and Pond Street, as seen in the image below. This whole stretch of land in the upper mill yard in downtown Amesbury was originally the United States’ first automated nail-making company which thrived on natural power from the close by Powwow River. Later huge textile companies like Hamilton Woolen (Seen Below) would also feed off gravity and natural water flow to make their products one of the nation’s best.
