Pocasset Manufacturing Company

Pocasset Manufacturing Company was a cotton textile mill located in Fall River, Massachusetts.

The basement was still used as a grist mill and they also built a water-wheel to raise the water to a convenient level for laundry.

It was partly occupied by the first calico printing business in Fall River, set up by Andrew Robeson.

Considered an extremely large mill for its time, it was a five-story stone building that was 319 ft long and 48 feet wide.

Also in 1825, the Watuppa Reservoir Company, was incorporated under a special statute by the Massachusetts and Rhode Island state legislature.

Nathaniel Briggs Borden as a member of this private entity, enabled Pocasset Manufacturing to take advantage of the increase in the river flow speed to allow them to build more mills for lease.

Built on the site of the Satinet Mill, it was a five-story stone building that was 208 ft long and 75 feet wide.

[10] The machinery was run by three turbine wheels, which were later supplemented by a Corliss engine fed by a steam plant with eighteen condensers.

[16] The site was later occupied by a bus terminal and parking lot until the early 1960s, when the property was taken by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for construction of Interstate 195.

A portion of the property of the Pocasset Manufacturing Company is now occupied by the Fall River Chamber of Commerce.