New PDF release: Hamilton's Industrial Heritage (Images of America)

By Richard N. Piland

Hamilton has been a tremendous job middle in Butler County in view that its founding in 1791, as its proximity to the good Miami River made it an excellent county seat and agricultural hub. starting in 1845, the Hamilton Hydraulic corporation diverted the river's circulate via city and built a process that provided reasonable waterpower to quarter turbines. via 1900, Hamilton used to be "the maximum production urban of its dimension within the world," and through the Nineteen Forties it was once domestic to a number of of the world's greatest industries. Champion Paper milled lined paper, Niles device Works synthetic laptop instruments, Hooven-Owens-Rentschler equipped Corliss engines, property range made stoves, and Mosler and Herring-Hall-Marvin secure businesses earned Hamilton its attractiveness because the "Safe Capital of the World." greater than one hundred fifty factories and retailers built assorted product lists within the early 1900s, yet purely 3 of those companies nonetheless function in Hamilton today.

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