Pleasure Driving Horses for Sale near Thompsonville, CT

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Hackney Stallion
Owner retiring due to ill health, price reduced, make reasonable offer. Li..
East Hampton, Connecticut
Bay
Hackney
Stallion
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East Hampton, CT
CT
$1,000
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About Thompsonville, CT

Thompsonville was established in the 19th century as a carpet- manufacturing community. Orrin Thompson, from whom the community takes its name, built a dam across Freshwater Brook in 1828 and opened the first carpet mill in 1829. Thompson's first mill, named "White Mill", employed skilled weavers brought from Scotland. Initially its product was largely flat-woven ingrain carpeting, an inexpensive type of carpeting, but over time it added more expensive weaves, such as three-ply ingrain and loop brussels. The mill had 230 looms in operation as of 1846.