Americas Company Towns Then And Now
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America's Company Towns: Then and Now
Author | : Octavio Warboys |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
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A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer. Company towns are often planned with a suite of amenities such as stores, houses of worship, schools, markets, and recreation facilities. In the company towns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a worker's boss did extra duty as a landlord, store owner, and constable. The on-site mill manager in Simmons, a town named after the furniture maker, even ran a successful baseball team. Built around iron mines and lumber concerns and directed by prominent entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, these industrial hamlets once lined the shores of Lakes Michigan and Superior.