All posts tagged "industrial revolution"
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12.6K3Business and LaborGirl Power in 1824: The First Factory Strike in America
America’s first factory strike happened just 30 years after America’s first successful textile mill started churning out cotton cloth in Pawtucket, R.I....
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7.5K2Arts and LeisureYou Don’t Have To Be Italian To Love RI Chicken Family Style
Chicken family style evolved in Northern Rhode Island during the Great Depression, and even today people will drive for miles and wait...
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12.5K9Business and LaborRiver Gods of the Connecticut River Valley Create A World of Their Own
During the 150 years before the American Revolution, a series of aristocrats known as the River Gods ruled the Connecticut River Valley....
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12.2K2New England PlacesSix Places Workers Were Killed in New England
Over the course of New England history many thousands of workers were killed on the job. Some, like Vermont quarry workers, died...
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23.2K9Business and LaborEli Terry, Connecticut Clock Maker
Eli Terry masterminded many of the time pieces that exist today, and in the process he helped ignite America’s industrial revolution. His...
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10.7K4MassachusettsSylvester Graham, Health Food Nut, Makes Butchers and Bakers Go Crackers
Sylvester Graham was such a severe critic of meat and refined flour that he provoked a near-riot in 1837 among Boston’s bakers...
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