Whitehall Manufacturing history

In 1839, David Carroll, Horatio Gambrill, and their associates purchased the mill from Ellicott and converted it to a textile mill for weaving cotton duck, a tightly woven canvas used to make ship sails.

By 1850, forty men and sixty-five women were working at Whitehall Mill with an output of 220,000 yards of cotton duck.

Discovery of iron ore deposits brought Whitehall into the Industrial Revolution when the first blast iron furnace was built in Hokendauqua in 1854.

In 1867 the current land area of Township of Whitehall was incorporated.

After another fire in 1868, Clipper Mill was rebuilt at twice its size.

The mill was sold in 1899 to the Mount Vernon-Woodberry Cotton Duck Company, a national conglomerate.

Whitehall became classified as a First Class Township with a population of 7,935 in 1900.

In 1902, the mill manufactured the cotton duck for Kaiser Wilhelm's yacht, which was christened by Alice Roosevelt as the Meteor III. In addition to ship sails, the mill manufactured other heavy canvas items such as mail bags for the United States government.

In 1925, the mill was sold to Purity Paper Vessels, a firm that manufactured paper containers that could hold semi-liquid foods.

In 1941, half the building was leased by the Army Quartermaster Office to be used as a warehouse for the Third Corps Area.

Whitehall Manufacturing was founded in 1946 by Sal Zaita.

In 1974, voters approved the adoption of a Home Rule Charter form of government, creating a seven-member legislative body and an elected Executive.

In 1976, Acorn Engineering Company launched the Care-Ware product line.

WhiteHall Products began operations as a marketer, designer and distributor of plastic packaging products in 1992.