Sylvania

Sylvania traces its roots back to 1901, when young entrepreneur Frank Poor became a partner in a small company in Middleton, Mass. that renewed burned-out light bulbs. Poor soon moved the business to Danvers bought out his partner and called his new company Bay State Lamp Company. His brothers soon joined the company. By 1909 they had started Hygrade Incandescent Lamp Company to sell new carbon-filament light bulbs and by 1911, tungsten filament light bulbs. In 1916, Hygrade opened a new plant and headquarters in Salem. They purchased the site of two burned-out tanneries at the corner of Boston and Bridge Streets and built the first of what would be two major manufacturing facilities in the city.

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"Portrait links Salem then and now" Salem News, June 20, 2011, p. ?