Note: This data was obtained through a query of the digitized federal census for 1920. By 1920, of all the major immigrant groups in Lowell, the Portuguese, comprising the sixth largest foreign-born ...

THE earliest employees of the New England cotton mills were secured almost exclusively from the farm and village population immediately adjacent to the early manufacturing centres. These employees ...

In the 1870's, a large cotton mill was built in Janesville on the west side of the Rock River. In the 1980's, the cotton mill was converted into apartments. By June 1880, 250 people worked in the ...

IN the remarkable economic development of the Southern States during the last thirty years, the textile industry easily leads the rest both in the amount of capital invested — fully twenty per cent of ...

‘Whoever says Industrial Revolution says cotton.’ Those were the words of the historian Eric Hobsbawm. The cotton industry was at the heart of Britain’s industrial transformation, leading the way in ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — Do you know what a bolt of lawn is? How about nainsook, or mercerized batiste? In September,1910 about 400 people attended a meeting in ...