The business of William G. Merrell and Villars Merrell Jr, iron founders and machinists.
The business manufactured George H. Jones' Little Giant Turbine Water Wheels. They also made mill spindles, oil pots, bushes, collars, rods, corn crackers, smut machines, fulling mills, trip hammers and other mill furnishings.
Source of Building Data: 1875 Boyd's Auburn Directory, 1875-6, containing the names of its citizens, a compendium of its government, and of the public and private institutions, together with a Business Directory of Union Springs, Aurora, and villages on the Southern Central Railway.