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The Boott Mill provides a walk-through museum with living recreations of the textile manufacturing process in the 19th century. The walking tour includes a detour to a memorial to local author Jack Kerouac , who described the mid-20th century declined state of Lowell in several of his books.
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]
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 ...
In 1873, over 100 women in Lowell walked out to protest the hot and humid conditions of their workroom. Working with steel led to horrific injuries. Men working in the South Works Steel Mill in ...
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Includes visitor center, Boott Cotton Mills Museum, Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center, Mill Girls and Immigrants Exhibit Lura Woodside Watkins Museum: Middleton: Essex: North Shore: History: Home of Middleton Historical Society [7] [8] Luther Museum: Swansea: Bristol: Southeastern Massachusetts: History: photos, home to Swansea Historical ...
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