In 1882, Coulter, Rogers and Company purchased this land and erected a large three story L-shaped building to produce wool blankets. By 1890, the firm was operating as Muncy Woolen Mill and making 50,000 blankets a year, and it became known for the quality of its blankets after receiving ribbons at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The business closed early in 1929, reopened in August as the Muncy Textile Company, and its employees were making 300-400 blankets a day before it closed in 1932. From 1937 until 1944, Glenbrook Mill operated here until the site was sold to Weldon Manufacturing, whose pajama factory employed as many as 350 people in 1957 and was the second largest employer in Muncy. Weldon closed its Muncy operation in 1960, and Sprout Waldron bought the building for storage in 1961. The building was razed in 2013. On the northwest corner of High and Market Streets, the First Baptist Church, built in 1842, was sold to Muncy Woolen Mills in 1898 and razed. Low-cost transportation on the canal and then the railroad spur helped the growth of Muncy's new merchants' class. Funded by Muncy's merchants, the privately operated Muncy Cut ran nearly a mile from the Port Penn section so canal boats on the West Branch Canal could directly reach downtown Muncy, ending at the woolen mill factory, with the Basin turnaround area beyond it. L. B. Sprout relocated his business to Muncy for canal access.