Story: Otago places

Mosgiel woollen mill, 1875 (2nd of 2)

Mosgiel woollen mill, 1875

Four years after the Mosgiel woollen mill opened, this engraving appeared in the Illustrated New Zealand Herald. It shows the factory buildings, the hills that separate the Taieri Plain from the coast, and farm workers in the foreground.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PUBL-0047-1875-001

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Malcolm McKinnon, 'Otago places - Taieri', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/artwork/22777/mosgiel-woollen-mill-1875 (accessed 3 May 2024)

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, updated 1 Jul 2015