About Washburn and Moen North Works District
Historical Places, Historic, Interesting Places, Historic Districts
The Washburn and Moen North Works District encompass an industrial complex that housed the largest business in Worcester, Massachusetts in the second half of the 19th century. Founded in 1831, Washburn and Moen was an innovating manufacturer of wire and related products, including telegraph wire, barbed wire (for which the company acquired a manufacturing monopoly), which were used in large quantities during America's westward expansion. The company's Grove Street complex was developed in the 1860s and 1870s and was used all or in part by the company and it successors until 1943. It continues to be used for light industrial manufacturing (including specialty wire products), and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
