Factory Complex
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By 1916, the Stephenson Underwear Mills occupied a sizable factory complex adjacent to the St. Joseph River.
This file appears in: Stephenson Underwear Mills
Stephenson Underwear Mills
Origin of the Mills Although South Bend citizens remembers the Stephenson Underwear Mills as men’s and women’s underwear makers, the company started as a wool mill. In 1855, Alexander C. “A.C.” Staley and Jeremiah Sowry started milling wool --…