River View

ID: 1991 ~ Source: The History Museum, South Bend, Indiana ~ Date: ca. 1910
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River View

Under the Stephenson Brothers’ ownership the mills campus grew along the St. Joseph River, seen here from the opposite bank.

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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 --…