All posts tagged "textile mills"
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6.1KBusiness and LaborSix Places Products Were Made
Back in the day, products were made in New England — a lot of products. The early cod fishermen and Yankee traders...
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6.6KBusiness and LaborSix New England Places To Learn About Irish History
Outside of Ireland, New England may be one of the best places to explore Irish history. After all, many people of Irish...
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4.8K2Politics and MilitaryChamplain, the Irish Lake
Between 1840 and 1860, a great wave of Irish immigrants washed up on the shores of Lake Champlain. So many, in fact,...
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5.1KBusiness and LaborThe Making of Rhode Island’s Manville Jenckes Mills
In 1923, Senator Henry Lippitt decided it was time for him to retire. At age 66, he had served in the U.S....
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8.9K2Business 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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19.7K1Business and LaborHow French-Canadian Textile Workers Came to New England
The story of a French-Canadian textile worker named Phillippe Lemay is the story of thousands of Quebecois farmers who came to New...
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7.4K10ConnecticutSix Amazing Indian Women From New England
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
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10.9K4MassachusettsA French Parish Gets an Irish Priest, And War Breaks Out in Fall River
In 1884, a French parish in Fall River, Mass., locked its Irish pastor out of the church and made his life a...
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6.2K3New England PlacesSix Gilded Age Gentleman Farms in New England
During the Gilded Age, gentleman farms were an important element of the upper-class lifestyle. They served as formal summer mansions and working...
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7.4K7New England PlacesSix Canals That Built New England
In 1803, one of the first New England canals made Boston the undisputed commercial center of New England. Called ‘the Incredible Ditch,’...
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