Tyer Rubber Company

Tyer Rubber Company

Lewis and Main Streets

In 1856 Henry G. Tyer established a factory to produce rubber cement in some of the Boston and Maine Railroad buildings. He began to make rubber shoes and moved into a larger structure. After obtaining a patent for combining zinc oxide with the rubber, he began to produce water bottles, syringes, rubber bands, and pharmaceutical items. After he died in 1881, his son inherited the business and began making automobile tires in 1909. In 1922 the Tyer Rubber stopped manufacturing tires and returned to making rubber footware. It later became a division of the Converse Corporation.

See

• The Lower Merrimack River Valley: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites R 609 Low, page 8 and page 9.

--Eleanor 13:05, October 7, 2006 (EDT)

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