Back to the Future
Looking down the Sugar River as it flows under Puksta Bridge on Claremont’s Broad Street, the city’s robust manufacturing past, its slow industrial decline and recent renewal can be envisioned all at once. The brick buildings that border the south side of the river once hummed with textile machinery operated mostly by immigrant labor. From the mid-1800s through the early 1900s, Monadnock Mills grew steadily with the construction of...
