Kanegafuchi Spinning Shinmachi Factory

...During the Edo period, it was a post town on the Nakasendo road near the ferry crossing of the Kanagawa River. Since the opening of the Ministry of Home Affairs' Shinmachi Kuzuito Spinning Mill as a model government-run factory in 1877 (it was sold to Mitsui in 1887 and became the Shinmachi Mitsukoshi Spinning Mill), it developed as a silk-reeling town until the early Showa period. In 1911, the spinning mill became the Kanegafuchi Spinning Shinmachi Mill, and until recently produced raw silk, but has now been converted into a food factory. With good transport links including the Takasaki Line and National Route 17, the town is also home to many factories producing automobile parts, electrical equipment, metal products, etc.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to Kanegafuchi Spinning Shinmachi Factory is listed below.

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…江戸時代には神流川の渡しをひかえた中山道の宿場町で，1877年に官営模範工場として内務省勧業寮新町屑糸紡績所が開業(1887年三井に払い下げられ新町三越紡績所となる)して以来，昭和初期まで製糸業の町として発達した。紡績所は1911年に鐘淵紡績新町工場となり，近年まで生糸をつくっていたが，現在は食品工場に転換している。高崎線，国道17号線などが通り交通の便がよいため，ほかに自動車部品，電機，金属製品などの工場も多い。…

※「鐘淵紡績新町工場」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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