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The Thirteen Factories, also known as the Canton Factories, was a neighbourhood along the Pearl River in southwestern Guangzhou (Canton) in the Qing Empire from c. 1684 to 1856 around modern day Xiguan, in Guangzhou's Liwan District. These warehouses and stores were the principal and sole legal site of most Western trade with China from 1757 to ...
The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company was an American watch manufacturing company. [1] In 1888 the Dueber Watch Case Company operating in Cincinnati from 1864 bought the Hampden Watch Company of New York, in operation since 1877. Dueber moved them both to Canton, Ohio, where Hampden used the Dueber cases until the companies merged in 1923. Pocket ...
The Canton System (1757–1842; Chinese: 一口通商; pinyin: Yīkǒu tōngshāng; Jyutping: jat1 hau2 tung1 soeng1, lit. "Single [port] trading relations") served as a means for Qing China to control trade with the West within its own country by focusing all trade on the southern port of Canton (now Guangzhou ).
Canton may never return to its former manufacturing status Centennial Plaza in downtown Canton will be a popular site for summertime events in 2024, including festivals, live music, movies, and ...
The company was founded in 1915, known at first as Hercules Motor Manufacturing Company, to build industrial engines, especially for trucks. [1] [2] The company reincorporated and reorganized in 1923, emerging as Hercules Motors Corporation. Hercules expanded greatly in the interwar period, developing gas and diesel engines, serving the needs ...
The southeast Canton neighborhood with its corner stores, bakeries and churches was a safe place to grow up. The residents, Black, and Italian and German immigrants, all knew one another.
The Revere Copper Company is a copper rolling mill in the United States. It operated North America's first copper rolling mill. It operated North America's first copper rolling mill. It was started by Paul Revere in 1801 in Canton, Massachusetts , and developed a commercially viable process for manufacturing copper sheets.
Between 500 to 600 people work at the North Canton building and Diebold Nixdorf employs about 1,300 people across Ohio, said Tiffini Bloniarz, the company's senior manager of communications.