He toured the mills, the tenement housing and the city of Lowell. He later wrote a book about his travels in the United States titled, American Notes.
In the book Dickens wrote favorable descriptions of both the Lowell mills and the Lowell mill girls. So, come join us for the Early American Industries Association Annual Meeting, Wednesday, May 15 th thru Saturday, May 18 th , in Lowell, Massachusetts for a meeting filled with friends, fun, workshops, lectures, demonstrations and a variety of opportunities to learn.
Registration forms will be mailed to you and will also be available right here on our website in mid-January Samuel Slater an overseer in an English textile factory introduced British cotton technology to America when he left England posing as a farmer.
He had committed the details of the Arkwright spinning machine to memory and in , while working for Moses Brown, he started the first American cotton spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The system of canals and gates built in Lowell harnessed the kinetic energy of this water flow and produced over 10, horsepower of energy to turn the turbines that powered the mills.
February 7, May 26, September 15, Fascinating information! What about the famous poet Robert Lowell? He was part of the family? Is he buried in that town? Hi Simon, Yes, Robert Lowell is a member of the famous Boston Lowell family that was involved in the textile industry. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Enter your email address to subscribe to the EAIA blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Email Address. Lowell, Massachusetts is named after Francis Cabot Lowell who never actually stepped foot in the town that bears his name. Francis Cabot Lowell spent two years in England between and While he was there, he toured the textile mills of Manchester and some say, engaged in industrial espionage.
He apparently memorized the workings of the power looms that were common in England at that time. With financial backing from a group of Boston investors he formed the Boston Manufacturing Company and developed the first fully integrated weaving mill on the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts that started with cotton from the bale and at the other end produced bolts of cotton cloth. But, the three mills that had been built in Waltham were using all of the available power from the Charles River.
So, the Boston Manufacturing Company sought a new site. Figure 6. An Early Moxie Ad. The author was probably Harriet Jane Farley, a mill girl who eventually became editor of the Lowell Offering. The operatives are well dressed, and we are told, well paid. They are said to be healthy, contented, and happy. This is the fair side of the picture. There is a dark side, moral as well as physical. Of the common operatives, few, if any, by their wages, acquire a competence.
The bills of mortality in these factory villages are not striking, we admit, for the poor girls when they can toil no longer go home to die. The average life, working life we mean, of the girls that come to Lowell, for instance, from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, we have been assured, is only about three years. What becomes of them then? Few of them ever marry; fewer still ever return to their native places with reputations unimpaired.
Whom has Mr. Brownson slandered? Think, for a moment, how many of the next generation are to spring from mothers doomed to infamy! It has been asserted that to put ourselves under the influence and restraints of corporate bodies, is contrary to the spirit of our institutions, and to that love of independence which we ought to cherish.
It became a city in Lucy Larcom, born in Beverly in , moved with her family to Lowell in Her writings played a significant role in the advancement of women's rights and Lucy Larcom Park along the Pawtucket Canal commemorates her. During the 19th century, Lowell was considered a model for industrial progress.
Lowell General Hospital was organized in Much later, these two combined to form the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Lowell is also served by Middlesex Community College. Lowell continued to thrive through the Roaring Twenties , but The Great Depression dealt its textile industries a blow from which it never recovered. The center of American textile manufacturing moved to the South following World War II , but Lowell recovered by diversifying into high technology.
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