Mill series 14 of 14 - read GC8Y7N5 1st
CLARK BISCUIT
In 1899 H. W. Clark started a bakery business in an old shoe factory on Lincoln St ( which is now gone, but the street use to go through the parking lot behind Big Y towards the flood chute) . Clark's company made and distributed a large variety of pastries, cheese and crackers, fig bars, biscuits, cakes, wafers, etc. The bakery business went well until it burned leaving only the walls standing. Mr Clark decided not to rebuild at that location but instead expand his current distribution plant on Ashland st which was located in another old shoe factory. Clark began distributing all over New England and New York, expanding rapidly.
In 1913 an extension on the rear side of the building was added in order to allow easier access to the railroad tracks, ( the tracks are still there ) and a two-story icing house was added on. The icing house was a large mill like section where employees would put icing on the cookie goods.
In 1922, Clark completed his new and final addition, "The Shipping House." Here trucks would come and transport goods to various areas. Clark Biscuit now had an enormous 4-story structure containing 63,000 square feet of floor space. A=585 It was said that Cookies started on the top floor and worked there way down. Something would be added on each floor and when the cookie reached the bottom it was completed
Clark's North Adams factory employed over 200. The men worked with the ovens while the women did most of the packaging and finishing touches on the cookies.
In 1928, Mr Clark decided to sell the business to Alex R. Patrie President of Atlantic Biscuit Co. of Providence, R.I. On the conditions that the Clark name be kept and that Clark would remain as president.
During its heyday Clark Biscuit was doing 1 Million dollars of business a year. After the factory closed in 1954 the building changed hands a few times but was eventually used by Tartan Machine Company for almost 40years before it was abandoned about 1990. After being empty for almost another 20 years, it was Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 and rehabed in to Apartments.
Thanks to the North Adams Historical society for providing information and photos
To solve for this Puzzle:
Final Coords E= Number of letters on the East side ( facing you) of the old smoke stack
N 42° 40.A W 073° 05.8E3