My father once had a hat factory here in downtown.

So at the age of 16, he became an apprentice in a hat factory.

It was an ordinary loft in a former hat factory.

He was admitted to the bar, but did not practice, instead establishing a hat factory.

Stetson left his family's hat factory to look for gold in Colorado.

The hat factory was able to create special custom hats within a few hours of the order.

To the east of Main commercial development continued, with the hat factories concentrated in the north, near the river.

It became the biggest women's hat factory in the world in the 1830s.

"The hat factory clearing out forced some people back to their families," he said.

"There was a lot of drugs and drinking at the hat factory, but I couldn't find anything else," she said.