The company town of Crespi d'Adda was founded in 1878 during the Industrial Revolution by the cotton manufacturer Cristoforo Benigno Crespi (1833-1920) on the bank of the Adda River. The town was built to house the workers and their families close to the factory in houses with garden and common services like public lavatory, wash-house, clinic, church, school, community center and cemetery. The Crespi family was obliged to sell the factory and the town during the economic crisis in 1929.