"The first factory for the manufacture of cotton cloth in the United States was erected in Beverly, Mass., in 1787 and in 1790 Samuel Slater established cotton industry in Pawtucket, R.I.; but the first real effort to establish the enterprise was in Lowell, where a large wooden building was erected at the Wamesit Falls, on the Concord River in 1813". - Harriet Robinson
"The Merrimack Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1822, a factory was built, and the first cotton cloth was made in 1823". - Harriet Robinson |
Francis Lowell only got a taste of what the mills would become. At the age of forty-two, Lowell died. The Boston Associates kept on building the town, naming it after Lowell who had made town possible. The Associates advertised the town as a safe place where women could work and make good money while having a good job.
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