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In 1813, businessman Francis Cabot Lowell formed a company, the Boston Manufacturing Company, and built a textile mill next to the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.. Unlike the earlier Rhode Island System, where only carding and spinning were done in a factory while the weaving was often put out to neighboring farms to be done by hand, the Waltham mill was the first integrated mill in ...
1836 Constitution of the Lowell Factory Girls Association 1844 (United States) Lowell Female Labor Reform Association formed. [6] April 1844 (United States) Fall River Mechanics' Association established 'The Mechanic', a weekly paper dedicated "to advocate the cause of the oppressed Mechanic and Laborer in all its bearings." [12] 1847 (Scotland)
The Lowell system, also known as the Waltham-Lowell system, was "unprecedented and revolutionary for its time". Not only was it faster and more efficient, it was considered more humane than the textile industry in Great Britain by "paying in cash, hiring young adults instead of children, and by offering employment for only a few years and providing educational opportunities to help workers ...
Slater Mill. The 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 on his British mill experience to create a factory system called the "Rhode Island System" based on the customary patterns of family life in New England villages.
City of Lowell incorporated. [15] Factory Girls' Association, [13] Dispensary, [6] Lowell Temperance Society, [6] and Second Universalist Parish [9] established. 1838 Nashua and Lowell Railroad begins operating. [4] County jail built. [10] 1839 Massachusetts Cotton Mills incorporated. [9] Middlesex Horticultural Society [9] and Lowell Medical ...
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The Lowell Offering was a monthly periodical collected contributed works of poetry and fiction by the female textile workers (young women [age 15–35] known as the Lowell Mill Girls) of the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills of the early American Industrial Revolution. It began in 1840 and lasted until 1845.
The Astros will compete in the Greater Lowell (Mass.) Holiday Tournament, which begins Wednesday and ends Saturday. All games will be played at Westford (Mass.) Academy.