The History of Square Nails in America – Historic Floor ...
· His original machine and technology lent itself to the first massproduction factory that was later built on the site of the old cotton mill known as the Parker Mill site, which the British Redcoats bombed and burned during the War of 1812. The Pratt brothers, with Reed's inventions established a large production nailcutting factory at this site in 1819. With the spread of this technology ...