The Waltham-Lowell system was a labor and production model employed during the rise of the textile industry in the United States, particularly in New...
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introduced a new manufacturing system called the "Lowell system", also known as the "Waltham-Lowell system". Francis Cabot Lowell sought to create an efficient...
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Merrimack River "Lowell," after their visionary leader. The Waltham-Lowell system, pioneered by Lowell and first introduced at the Waltham mill, was expanded...
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century industrial city planning, spawning what became known as the Waltham-Lowell system of labor and production. The city is now a center for research and...
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Larcom Francis Cabot Lowell Harriet Hanson Robinson List of mill towns in Massachusetts Lowell mills Mill towns Waltham-Lowell system Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice...
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an integrated system, where cotton came in and was spun, bleached, dyed and woven into finished cloth, was at mills in Waltham and Lowell, Massachusetts...
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national Park service, having been chartered first in 1986. See also, Waltham-Lowell system "John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor...
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locations established or improved by the Boston Associates: Waltham, Massachusetts (1813) Lowell, Massachusetts (1822) Manchester, New Hampshire (1825) Saco...
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at Waltham, Massachusetts, engineered by Paul Moody for Francis Cabot Lowell and 'The Boston Associates', and inaugurating the Waltham-Lowell system of...
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Paul Moody (inventor) (category People from Lowell, Massachusetts)
successful integrated cotton mill at Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1814, under the leadership of Francis Cabot Lowell and his associates. Paul Moody was born...
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Middlesex and Boston Street Railway (redirect from Waltham and Newton Street Railway)
Roberts and Central Square Waltham bus line, with the 27 Newton Corner–Riverside via Auburndale and Central Square Waltham using much of Crescent Street...
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Industrial Revolution (section Factory system)
the American Industrial Revolution. The short-lived utopia-like Waltham-Lowell system was formed, as a direct response to the poor working conditions...
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Boston Manufacturing Company (category Buildings and structures in Waltham, Massachusetts)
Merrimack Manufacturing Company, in 1822 they copied the Waltham System at the new city of Lowell, Massachusetts, on a much larger scale. The same group...
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Boott Mills (category Textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts)
power canal in Lowell, which was already driving other mills, and built his mills in 1835, staffing them using the Waltham-Lowell system. Running off of...
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Androscoggin River, the most northerly of the Waltham-Lowell system towns (factory towns modeled on Lowell, Massachusetts). The twin cities of Biddeford...
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at Waltham, Massachusetts, engineered by Paul Moody for Francis Cabot Lowell and 'The Boston Associates', and inaugurating the Waltham-Lowell system of...
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mature large-scale expressions of the Lowell system of cotton textile manufacturing, perfected at Waltham and Lowell, Massachusetts earlier in the 19th century...
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Pawtucket Canal (category Canals in Lowell, Massachusetts)
became a major component of the Lowell power canal system. with the founding of the textile industry at what became Lowell. The Pawtucket Falls are a mile...
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mill in Waltham, Massachusetts. This mill was the first one in America to use power looms, and proved so successful that Patrick Jackson (Lowell's successor...
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Raytheon (redirect from Raytheon Data Systems Company)
2003, Raytheon's headquarters moved from Lexington, Massachusetts, to Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had previously been headquartered in Cambridge...
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Monarch Diner (category Buildings and structures in Lowell, Massachusetts)
Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. The diner was built by Worcester Lunch Car Company as #749 in 1940, and was originally located in Waltham, Massachusetts...
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where it split off from the Middlesex Central Branch of the Boston and Lowell Railroad in North Cambridge and through which it had access to North Station...
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base to Clark's Shoes, makers of fine footwear, until they relocated to Waltham Ma. in October 2016. The Saco–Pettee Machine Shops are located at the northwest...
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which was folded into the MBTA system in 1968. The since-discontinued 136 and the 137 were briefly operated as far as Lowell and Lawrence, their original...
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2008 relocated to Woburn.) and one in Lowell; and the defunct Middlesex County Hospital in the city of Waltham. The legislation abolishing the Middlesex...
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Wellington–Castner House (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Waltham, Massachusetts)
National Register of Historic Places listings in Waltham, Massachusetts "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National...
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Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center (category National Register of Historic Places in Waltham, Massachusetts)
The school occupies a 186 acres (75 ha) property off Trapelo Road in Waltham, Massachusetts. The Fernald Center, originally called the Experimental...
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Gaebler Children's Center (category Buildings and structures in Waltham, Massachusetts)
Health for severely mentally ill children and adolescents, located in Waltham, Massachusetts. The center opened on October 8, 1955, near the grounds...
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Luther Dana (born 11 July 1795 in Amherst, New Hampshire – 11 March 1868 in Lowell, Massachusetts) was an American chemist. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy...
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Metropolitan State Hospital (Massachusetts) (category Buildings and structures in Waltham, Massachusetts)
hospital for the mentally ill, on grounds that extended across parts of Waltham, Lexington, and Belmont, Massachusetts. Founded in 1927, it was at one...
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