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Today, the Boott Mills complex is the most complete 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 houses the Boott Cotton Mills Museum [3] and the Tsongas Industrial History Center for K-12 educational programs. [4]
The American Textile History Museum (ATHM), located in Lowell, Massachusetts, was founded as the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum (MVTM) in North Andover, Massachusetts in 1960 by Caroline Stevens Rogers. ATHM told America’s story through the art, science, and history of textiles. In June 2016, the museum closed. [1]
The textile industry in New England experienced a sharp decline after World War II and by the 1960s, many of the Lowell's textile mill buildings were abandoned. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, several important forces came together from which emerged the Lowell National Historical Park.
Made Trade compiled a brief history of women and textiles in the United States, drawing on historical museum ... recruiters for the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts targeted young women for ...
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American Textile History Museum in Lowell closed in June 2016. Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, Springfield, closed in 2009, building will house the Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum FDR Center Museum, Worcester [ 12 ]
Negro cloth or Lowell cloth was a coarse and strong cloth used for slaves' clothing in the West Indies and the Southern Colonies. [1] [2] [3] The cloth was imported from Europe (primarily Wales) in the 18th and 19th centuries. [4] [5] The name Lowell cloth came from the town Lowell in Massachusetts, United States, where the cloth was produced. [6]
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