Bounded by Hartford Rd., Laurel, Spruce, and Lampfield Sts., Manchester, Connecticut. County/parish: Hartford.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 02, 1978. NRIS 78002885.
241 contributing buildings.
The Cheney Brothers Historic District was a center of the silk industry in Manchester, Connecticut, in the late 19th and early 20th century. The 175-acre (71 ha) district includes over 275 mill buildings, workers houses, churches, schools and Cheney family mansions. These structures represent the well-preserved company town of the Cheney Brothers silk manufacturing company, the first America-based silk company to properly raise and process silkworms, and to develop the difficult techniques of spinning and weaving silk. The area was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1978.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132353618