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Six years after building Slater Mill, Samuel Slater's partners William Almy and Obadiah Brown bought another mill on their own and copied some of Slater's machine designs for it. Angered by this, Slater built a new mill with his in-laws, the Wilkinsons, and together they finished the White Mill in 1799 on the grassy hill across the river. Despite these differences, the Almy, Brown, and Slater partnership remained intact. Eight years later, they added John Slater to the partnership and built what was then the biggest mill in America. The White Mill burned down in 1824, and no visual records of the building are known.
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