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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.
The Boott Mills From line shaft to power looms at Boott Mills 42°38′54″N 71°18′30″W / 42.6482°N 71.3084°W / 42.6482; -71.3084 The Boott Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts were a part of an extensive group of cotton mills , built in 1835 alongside a power canal system in this important cotton
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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The mill girls lived in company boarding houses and were subject to strict codes of conduct and supervised by older women. They worked about 80 hours a week. Six days per week, they woke to the factory bell at 4:40 a.m. and reported to work at 5 before a half-hour breakfast break at 7.
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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.