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Identifier: historyofamerica1922bost (find matches)
Title: History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated)
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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Subjects: Textile industry -- United States Textile fabrics -- United States
Publisher: Boston : Frank P. Bennett
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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prietors ofthe Locks and Canals of the Merrimac River.Immediate construction of an enlarged canalwith branches was undertaken at a cost of$120,000. The next summer the WalthamCompany sold their patterns and patentliphts to the younger Merrimac Company for$75,000, and also released Paul Moodywho was under contract. The new mill, erec-ted in a point advantageous for the use ofthe Falls, was started in the early autumn ofthe same year. The first cloth was rather of $100 was declared one year after themanufacturing center had been incorpor-ated as a separate town from Chelmsfordunder the name of Lowell in honor of itsfounder Francis Cabot Lowell. The manufacturing companies that boughttheir canal and leased their water rights fromthe Merrimac Manufacturing Company werethe Hamilton Manufacturing Company,1825; the Appleton Company, 1828; theLowell Company, 1828; the Suffolk, 1830;Tremont, 1830; Lawrence, 1830; the BoottCompany, 1835, and the MassachusettsCompany, 1839. Constant improvements
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PATRICK TRACY JACKSONOne of the Founders of the Boston Manufacturing Company unsatisfactory but the owners continued toenlarge their plant. First a brick machineshop was built where the mill machinery wasfashioned. Unused land was sold to othermills, and also the privileges of water sup-ply for which the Merrimac Company cut allnecessary canals. Enormous profit accruedfrom the sale of these manufacturing sitesand the old farmers who had sold land for$40,000 that now brought at least a dollara square foot vented their indignation ina topical song about Kirk Boott who had be-come agent for the new Merrimac Manufac-turing Company. In I 825, the first dividend of ihe canal system were made and the cor-porations leasing the water rights finallybecame part owners in the system whichgave an additional boom to the town. itbecame a city in 1836. Dickens, whoseAmerican observations offended many onthis side of the Atlantic, praised the work-ing conditions as superior to Englands andalso the hou

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