Windham Textile History Museum The Mill Museum . Similar stories played out all across eastern Connecticut. In the early 1800s, entrepreneurs founded scores of textile mills in such places as Willimantic, Norwich, Taftville, Occum, Baltic, Jewett City, Plainfield, Moosup, Wauregan, Danielson, Pomfret, Putnam, Stafford Springs, Manchester, Mansfield, Coventry, .