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A massive fire tore through the the former Star Pin Co. in downtown Shelton on Saturday, June 13, 2020. Officials are investigating the cause of the fire in the vacant 19th-century buillding.
Photo: Shelton Fire Department PhotoA massive fire tore through the the former Star Pin Co. in downtown Shelton on Saturday, June 13, 2020. Officials are investigating the cause of the fire in the vacant 19th-century buillding.
A massive fire tore through the the former Star Pin Co. in downtown Shelton on Saturday, June 13, 2020. Officials are investigating the cause of the fire in the vacant 19th-century buillding.
A massive fire tore through the the former Star Pin Co. in downtown Shelton on Saturday, June 13, 2020. Officials are investigating the cause of the fire in the vacant 19th-century buillding.
SHELTON - Officials are investigating the cause of a massive fire that tore through the the fomer Star Pin Factory Saturday night.
For hours, firefighters battled the blaze of the vacant Canal Street brick building on the banks of the Housatonic River.
First arriving fire department units found “a well involved and well advanced fire in an the abandoned factory,” the Shelton Fire Department said.
Heavy fire ripped through the rear of the three-story building with flames shooting up through the roof. A second alarm was struck for the fire almost immediately
Due to the age and conditon of the building a defensive strategy was used.
Derby fire units also responded to help with the blaze, with Ansonia fire units covering the Shelton downtown station and Monroe covering Shelton’s White Hill fire station.
The fire spread to at least one other neary building, as well as the wooded area nearby.
Firefighters had Howe Avenue shut down between White and Brook streets around 8:18 p.m., as crews tapped into additional hydrants for water supply.
Crews remained on scene throughout the night battling the blaze.
The Star Pin company was founded on Sept. 25, 1866. Its first location was along the Far Mill River in the Wells Hollow area of Shelton. Next the company moved to Canal Street, Shelton in November 1874. After more than a century, the company closed its doors, December 1977.
The company manufactured pins, hair pins, hooks and eyes for clothing.
The company’s peak came during the 1920s, whereupon 400 employees toiled within 125,000 feet of total floor space. By the early 1950s, the company also produced folding paper boxes and numbered 140 employees.
According to ConnecticutMills.org, one of the founders and early officers of the company, James C. Hubbard, is credited with inventing one of the first automated hair pin making machines in the United States.
Hubbard’s son, Henry Franklin Hubbard, joined the company during the 1890s and was active with the firm for 57 years. During this time he attained the title of 'dean of American pin makers,' after designing the machine that produced the first 'bobby pins.'
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