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1896

Wyomissing, Pennsylvania
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In 1896, Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen accepted an offer to relocate to Wyomissing, where Reading Suburban Real Estate Co. sold them a site for $1. This site became the Berkshire Knitting Mills, the largest company of its kind in the world.
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