Lowell mills - Wikipedia
The Lowell Mills were 19th-century textile mills that operated in the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, which was named after Francis Cabot Lowell; he introduced a new manufacturing system called the "Lowell system", also known as the "Waltham-Lowell system".
Lowell National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
Lowell’s water-powered textile mills catapulted the nation – including immigrant families and early female factory workers – into an uncertain new industrial era. Nearly 200 years later, the changes that began here still reverberate in our shifting global economy.
What Was the Lowell System? - History of Massachusetts Blog
2017年1月25日 · The Lowell System was a labor production model invented by Francis Cabot Lowell in Massachusetts in the 19th century. The system was designed so that every step of the manufacturing process was done under one roof and the work was performed by young adult women instead of children or young…
Boott Cotton Mills Museum - Lowell National Historical Park …
2024年12月1日 · The Boott Cotton Mills Museum at Lowell National Historical Park is the best place to learn about Lowell’s industrial past. Explore the stories of the workers, engineers, inventors, and investors who made Lowell the first successful planned …
Lowell Mill Girls and the factory system, 1840
By 1840, the factories in Lowell employed at some estimates more than 8,000 textile workers, commonly known as mill girls or factory girls. These "operatives"—so-called because they operated the looms and other machinery—were primarily …
Plan Your Visit - Lowell National Historical Park (U.S. National Park ...
2024年9月7日 · Discover what life outside of the factory life was like for the 19th-century Mill Girls and visit the Into an 1840s Boarding House exhibit at the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center. Explore two centuries of hard work and innovative engineering on a …
Massachusetts: Lowell National Historical Park - NPS
2024年6月10日 · Today, at Lowell National Historical Park, visitors can experience the immigrant influence throughout the city’s ethnic neighborhoods; tour the Boott Cotton Mills Museum and Boardinghouse, the Suffolk Mill Turbine, and the Pawtucket Gatehouse; and enjoy boat tours through the historic industrial city’s locks and canals.
Lowell Mills - Encyclopedia.com
Lowell died in 1817, but the Boston Associates went on to build a complete factory town along the powerful Merrimack River in Massachusetts, naming it Lowell in his honor. They built more mills on the Merrimack in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Manchester, New Hampshire .
Mill Life in Lowell 1820 - 1880 - University of Massachusetts Lowell
2023年2月15日 · Beginning in 1820s, the nation’s largest textile factories were built in Lowell and thousands of women and men flocked to the city to find jobs in the booming textile industry.
The Lowell Mills, The Mill Girls - Labor History Resource Project
2022年1月29日 · In 1820 Lowell, known as East Chelmsford, MA at the time, had a population of 200 and was a farming community. Thirty years later, the population had grown to 33,000 and one could find 32 textile mills in existence there. Lowell was an ideal location for these mills because it was located near the Merrimac River.