All posts tagged "industrial revolution"
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9.2K2Business and LaborGirl Power: The 1824 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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5.0K2Arts 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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7.8K7Business 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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9.0K2New 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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17.7K9Business 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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7.7K4MassachusettsSylvester 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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6.4K10ConnecticutMethodists vs. Millgirls in the Murder Trial of the Century (Pt. 1)
Everyone agrees on one thing about the Methodists and the mill girl: On December 21, 1832, Sarah Cornell was found dead. A...
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