When i was a kid growing up my grandmother worked in a factory making water meters here in Ma, Hersey Products.
Those water meters were in hundreds of thousands of homes back then.
After 30 years she lucked out, 2 months after she retired the company moved SOUTH, to the Carolina’s, The “old” MEXICO.
Bet they are not in North Carolina anymore. there is NO “South” for these corporations anymore.
I wonder if Hersey Products even exist anymore....
gonna have to look it up.
I remember as a small child she gave me a tour, i was amazed looking at their foundry, she used to bring me home boxes of magnets and gears that i would spin like tops.
the old factory in Dedham, Ma is gone now, replaced by apartments with mandatory 25% section 8 there now.
Not quite sure on the 25% but i’m sure it’s close...
Great story about your grandmother.
I remember when the shoe mfrs. from Brockton all moved south.
Textiles from other parts of N.E also fled to Dixie.
A time of transition.
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