In 1831, Boston developer Samuel Batchelder stood on a bluff overlooking the Saco River’s roaring falls, in what is now ...

In 1848, a young immigrant to the United States began working in a textile mill. Almost 150 years later, in 1989, a young ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - For almost a decade residents in one Greenville mill village have been working to preserve ...

What was life like for children apprenticed in textile mills? Huge mills were built in the 18th and 19th centuries. To produce cotton and woollen cloth, the mills needed a vast workforce which ...

What was life like for children apprenticed in textile mills? Huge mills were built in the 18th and 19th centuries. To produce cotton and woollen cloth, the mills needed a vast workforce which ...