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A Moment in Tolland History: Underwood Belting Company
A look back at local history, courtesy of Town Historian Barbara Cook and the Tolland Historical Society.
From Town Historian Barbara Cook:
The original Underwood Belting Company factory was on Tolland Stage Road approximately where St. Matthew Rectory is today. The factory, and a later one the company built on Old Post Road, manufactured belting for everything from sewing machines to 4-foot wide belts for industrial use.
One Underwood brother was an inventor, and held several patents including one for a leather and cotton belting product and another for a V-belt. The factory shipped belts all over the world and had agents in New York, Boston, Providence, Chicago and Dayton, Ohio.
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Used later to house chickens, the building became unsafe and is shown being burned by the fire department.
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