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O'Bannon Mill (also known as O'Bannon Corporation Leather Division;Collins & Aikman Mill) is an historical mill at 90 Bay Spring Avenue in Bristol, Rhode Island.
In 1905, a Mr. Frost founded the Frost Finishing Company and built the original 1905 structure which is part of the current O'Bannon building. Mr. O'Bannon, the treasurer, bought Frost's shares and the mill became the largest manufacturer of imitation leather in the world. O'Bannon went on to acquire other mills arounds Rhode Island and New Jersey. Mr. O'Bannon was became incompetent in 1921, died in 1923 and the company went bankrupt in 1926. Cranston Worsted Mills and then Collins and Aikman and finally American Tourister and Piling Chain owned the company until the 1970s. The mill building became elderly housing in the early 1990s.
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