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The Benedict shop had three employees, and they made 18 hats weekly. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] : 47–48 By 1800, Danbury was producing 20,000 hats annually, more than any other city in the U.S. [ 29 ] Due to the fur felt hat coming back into style for men and increasing mechanization in the 1850s, by 1859 hat production in Danbury had risen to 1.5 ...