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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 States. The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of New England farmers, typically between the ages of 15 and 35. [ 1 ]
Girls served informally as nurses, moved back to their family farms to help these run, or took other positions that men had left when they joined the army. [7] These girls were out of the mills for the duration of the war. When the mills reopened after the war, the girls did not return because they no longer needed the mills.
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.
In addition to the Yankees, Clara’s antagonist is Temperance, a mill girl who tells slanderous lies about Clara, even implicating her in a murder. ... “The Lost Women of Mill Street” (300 ...
Eliza Jane Cate was born in 1812 in Sanbornton, New Hampshire. [3] Her father was a carpenter, mason, and fought in the War of 1812. [4] She went to work in cotton mills in Manchester, New Hampshire and Lowell, Massachusetts. [5]
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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 Cardinals' impressive run as the No. 14 seed in Division 3 came to a close, falling to No. 2 Westfield, 3-1, in the semifinals. It was Spellman's first trip to the semifinals since 2013.