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The Boston and Sandwich Boot and Shoe Company occupied a site opposite Town Hall
in 1881 with twenty workers making fifty pairs of shoes a day! Then the Armstrong
Braiding Company eventually filled the spot held by the shoe company.
Things kept enlarging. The upper mill dam Sam Wing cotton and wool yarn factory
was succeeded by the Wing and Rogers tack factory. It seems that key figures just kept
exchanging factory sites and ownership.
Fish and cranberries remained as vital businesses in Sandwich and elsewhere on Cape
Cod. Many of the previously mentioned characters not only owned and ran factories
but also took part in the native cranberry industry. Isaiah Tobey Jones, who owned a
Tack company, was heavily involved with the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association
founded in 1888.
So, it was not only the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company and Deming Jarves who
ran a successful business in Sandwich. However, by March 1905, the fires went out for
the last time at the site of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Works. All gallant efforts
to save it had failed and all workers and families had to move on and leave Sandwich.
Sources for information was collected from the following resources:
Written by Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica,
SANDWICH A Cape Cod Town, by R. A. Lovell, Jr.,
and Kaethe Maquire, President, FOSTA)