| Author |
Message |
    
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3081
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 01, 2013 - 12:28 pm: | 
|
*
Made in West Mystic 1909
* |
ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1718
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 01, 2013 - 01:13 pm: |
|
Richard,
Question
Lathrop was on Holmes St in Mystic.
There is and wasn't any Holmes St in West Mystic.
I wonder if there is/was any significance in the name?
|
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3083
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 01, 2013 - 01:44 pm: |
|
*
Ernie
Good question !
This is present Lathrop address info I have ?
"J.W. built his original one-cylinder gasoline marine engine in 1897, in the barn behind his house at the corner of Elm and Burrows Streets in Mystic. before 1900 he moved to a little shop on Front Street, now Holmes Street. 1900 he added on, and by 1916 the Lathrop Engine Company, with more than 90 workmen, occupied a long wooden building on the river plus a large brick building across the street. Now known as Schooner Wharf, this presently houses Riverwalk restaurant, Flat Hammock Press, Mystic River Yarns and other attractions.
1957 the business was sold to Burmeister and Wain ".
I don't have accurate addresses on Holmes but I will Look !
* |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3086
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 01, 2013 - 05:44 pm: |
|
*
Ernie
Looks to me that Holmes street in mystic, Conn
is where lathrop factory was and was named Holmes as far back as 1880,s and probably farther back than then !
Holmes had two names- Holmes Shipbuilding Co. founded 1900 on (a word not allowed on this site because of spamming some time back - place of gaming ) C--ino Road Willow Point West Mystic. And Holmes Motor Co. I believe at same address ! Doesn't seem to be any other significance in this generation of holmes ??
* |
ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1719
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 01, 2013 - 05:58 pm: |
|
OK figured you would come to an interesting conclusion.
Willow point is about halfway from Mystic to Noank. My Dad was born there and my Grandfather worked at the shipyard that is still there. |
ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1720
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 01, 2013 - 07:55 pm: |
|
PIcs from Google Earth
Mystic Overview showing Mystic Seaport, Lathrop and West Mystic.
Lathrop
West Mystic
 |
