During the 1950's many aspects of Millville Manufacturing Company, particularly cotton textiles, were on the decline. A combination of the increased use of synthetic fibres and the textile industry's move to the South (where labor and materials costs were less) made 
Millville’s textile operations unprofitable.
The company liquidated textiles along with some of its other subsidiaries throughout the 1960s. Millville Manufacturing Company merged with Wawa Dairy Farms and Wawa Food Markets in 1968 and retained the Millville name for business purposes. The company officially changed its name to Wawa, Inc. in 1974...NEXT >>