The Lowell Mills were 19th-century textile mills that operated in the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, which was named after Francis Cabot Lowell; he introduced...
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The Lowell mill girls were young female workers who came to work in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution in the United...
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textile mills and factories. Many of Lowell's historic manufacturing sites were later preserved by the National Park Service to create Lowell National...
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large proportion of young women, known as Lowell mill girls) who lived in the dormitories and worked in the mills. The textile industry in New England experienced...
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Nathan Appleton who would later become a partner in the Lowell mills. As the War of 1812 began, Lowell and his family left Europe and on their way home, the...
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precursor to the Waltham-Lowell system was used in Rhode Island, where British immigrant Samuel Slater set up his first spinning mills in 1793. Slater drew...
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remainder of antebellum textile mills built in Lowell. The original Mill No. 6 is managed by the National Park Service unit Lowell National Historical Park and...
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Lucy Larcom (section Lowell Mill Girl)
Boott Mills, a cotton mill in Lowell, as a doffer, to earn extra money for her family. She was among the very youngest of those employed at the mills. Her...
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workers (young women [age 15–35] known as the Lowell Mill Girls) of the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills of the early American Industrial Revolution...
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Center, and Mishawum. The Boston and Lowell Railroad started freight operations in 1835, with traffic from the Lowell mills to the Boston port. Demand for the...
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The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell and UML) is a public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a satellite campus in Haverhill...
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industry, enabling the construction of larger cotton mills. Limited companies were developed to construct mills, and together with the business of the trading...
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Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (/ˈloʊəl/; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could...
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the hundreds of their mills. Mill locations established or improved by the Boston Associates: Waltham, Massachusetts (1813) Lowell, Massachusetts (1822)...
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Factory (redirect from Factory mills)
Venetian Arsenal Cromford Mill Lombe's Mill Soho Manufactory Portsmouth Block Mills Slater Mill Historic Site Lowell Mills Springfield Armory Harpers...
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Brahmin Lowell family, he was born in Boston to John Amory Lowell and his second wife Elizabeth Cabot Putnam. His great-grandfather, John Lowell, was among...
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The history of Lowell, Massachusetts, is closely tied to its location along the Pawtucket Falls of the Merrimack River, from being an important fishing...
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cotton textile mill established in Lowell. Under the direction of Paul Moody, the shop also built machinery for the other mills in Lowell as they were set...
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established. Lowell Offering begins publication. By now, Lowell mills had recruited over 8,000 Lowell mill girls. Population: 20,796. 1841 Lowell Cemetery...
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Eliza Jane Cate (category Lowell mill girls)
She went to work in cotton mills in Manchester, New Hampshire and Lowell, Massachusetts. She is considered a Lowell mill girl and published a considerable...
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Once the United States' first planned textile town, Lowell fell on hard times after the mills' relocation to the South. Local computer company Wang...
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one location to produce goods. The early textile factories such as the Lowell mills employed mainly women, but generally factories were a male domain. By...
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Factory system (section Mills)
finished cloth, was at mills in Waltham and Lowell, Massachusetts. These became known as Lowell Mills and the Waltham-Lowell system. The Nasmyth, Gaskell...
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The Boston and Lowell Railroad was a railroad that operated in Massachusetts in the United States. It was one of the first railroads in North America and...
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The Musketaquid Mills is a historic mill building at 131 Davidson Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. It is the only mill building remaining on the east side...
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Canal-Whipple Mill Industrial Complex is a historic mill and canal at 576 Lawrence Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. This industrial area of Lowell, located...
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Ulysses J. Lupien (category City managers of Lowell, Massachusetts)
ended, Lupien returned to Pacific Mills as the consulting director of public relations. On November 29, 1952, the Lowell City Council voted five to four...
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649598; -71.316698 The Wannalancit Mills (formerly the Suffolk Mills) in Lowell, Massachusetts is an early American cotton mill, parts of which date to the 1830s...
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Abba Goddard (section Lowell Offering)
Offering covered a broad range of topics; it was widely read by many of the Lowell Mill Girls. In 1846, Abba Goddard contributed to a compilation of poetry,...
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The Mills of the Kavanaughs is the third book of poems written by the American poet Robert Lowell. Like Lowell's previous book, Lord Weary's Castle, the...
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