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The Berkshire Knitting Mills was established in 1906. The first concrete steel-reinforced building in America was constructed here as part of the Big Red Building. This site would go on to incorporate a medical dispensary, a junior college of engineering, and a foundry used to manufacture the knitting machines.
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