Mordecai Millar also built mills and Joseph Hill opened a tannery. There were also blacksmiths, a leather tannery, carpenters, saddlers, bootmakers and hatters. There were foundries, machine shops, granite works, shoe factories and a tannery. The tannery turned animal hides into leather. In 1900, Northwestern Leather Company opened a tannery in Sault Ste. When Saul Katz went to the tannery in Brazil he named the leather Rockport. That year an old tannery was expanded into Breithaupt Leather Company. Hundreds of leather and tannery facilities are located around Vellore and its nearby towns. Rees' tannery operated on New Creek. The doctor discovers that the water is contaminated by the local tannery. In 1917, Lassen moved into a square brick building that had once been a tannery. The Mokameh Ghat tannery in Bihar (1952) is the second largest in Asia. One is a tannery, the other a potato processing plant. In 1923, he became an apprentice in the tannery industry in Matelica. The museum was housed on part of the former Hodgsons Tannery site.