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Woolrich, the flannel town
1830
Woolrich, Pennsylvania
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John Rich built a woolen mill on Chatham Run in 1830 and sold fabric from a mule cart to lumber camps. The company town that grew around it still bears the brand's name, or the other way around. Woolrich wove blankets for the Civil War and invented the buffalo plaid shirt that every lumberjack, hunter and eventually Brooklyn barista has worn since. The mill ran until 2018, the town and the label carry on.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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