Staley Mills

ID: 1990 ~ Source: The History Museum, South Bend, Indiana ~ Date: 1907
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Staley Mills

Staley Manufacturing Company’s mill stands along the East Race before it was bought out by the Stephenson Brothers in 1907.

This file appears in: Stephenson Underwear Mills

By Jacqueline Lopez
Origin of the Mills Although South Bend citizens remembers the Stephenson Underwear Mills as men’s and women’s underwear makers, the company started as a wool mill. In 1855, Alexander C. “A.C.” Staley and Jeremiah Sowry started milling wool --…