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America Transformed: Lowell, Massachusetts, the first planned company mill town, is recognized as the cradle of America’s Industrial Revolution. In the 1820s, Boston financiers founded the town when they constructed a textile factory on a canal bypassing the Merrimack River’s Pawtucket Falls. By mid-century, Lowell was the largest industrial complex in the United States. The textile economy relied on cotton grown by enslaved people in the South. The jobs attracted young women from rural New England, and immigrants from French Canada, Germany, and Ireland. The accompanying view, published in 1834, illustrates how the mills dominated the city’s landscape when viewed from the north side of the Merrimack River.
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x059c994q
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View of Lowell, Mass
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obj
dtoType
map
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1
Source metadata
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x059c994q
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map
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normalized
title
View of Lowell, Mass
description
America Transformed: Lowell, Massachusetts, the first planned company mill town, is recognized as the cradle of America’s Industrial Revolution. In the 1820s, Boston financiers founded the town when they constructed a textile factory on a canal bypassing the Merrimack River’s Pawtucket Falls. By mid-century, Lowell was the largest industrial complex in the United States. The textile economy relied on cotton grown by enslaved people in the South. The jobs attracted young women from rural New England, and immigrants from French Canada, Germany, and Ireland. The accompanying view, published in 1834, illustrates how the mills dominated the city’s landscape when viewed from the north side of the Merrimack River.
date
["[1834]"]
year
1834
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_002309
creators
Farrar, E. A.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Lowell (Mass.)--Aerial views
Fuller, Elisha, 1794-1855
subjectsGeographic
Lowell
Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
Still image
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Middlesex
city
Lowell
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
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pubPlace
Boston, Mass
publisher
Jacob Farrar
Source extras
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sf268508b
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9s1621613
schema:latitude
42.6333
schema:longitude
-71.3167
extent
1 view ; 36 x 60 cm.
notes
Bird's-eye view.
Includes index to points of interest.
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1934 by Jacob Farrar in the Office of the District Court of Massachusetts."
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no
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x059c994q
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map
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