All posts tagged "textile mills"
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6.2K30New England PlacesSix New England Places With a Unique Name
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
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51.3K12Arts and LeisureThe Six Oldest Restaurants in New England
The six oldest restaurants in New England include taverns that served hungry travelers and a diner that fed mill workers after their...
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24.2K9Connecticut6 Stops on the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of people who hid fugitives from slavery in their homes during the day and moved them...
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20.1K12Business and LaborHow the Polish Immigrants Came to New England
Before Polish immigrants arrived in New England they had already made it to the Jamestown colony in Virginia as craftsmen. Over the...
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13.9K6Business and LaborThe Brunswick Children Strike the Cabot Mill
In the summer of 1881, eight-year-old children working in a Brunswick, Maine, textile mill found out eight-year-old children working in a Lewiston,...
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10.2K7Business and LaborThe Bates Bedspread of Maine, America’s Favorite Counterpane
The Bates Bedspread, once found in nearly every household, has links to presidents, First Ladies, a famous midwife and countless women who...
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6.7K5MassachusettsElizabeth Buffum Chace, Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Elizabeth Buffum Chace belonged to old and distinguished Rhode Island families, but she was distrusted and shunned because of her ardent opposition...
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49.6K38ConnecticutThe Little Canadas of New England
Dozens of Little Canadas have contributed a significant but often ignored part of the character and history of New England since the...
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82.2K25Arts and LeisureHow Portuguese Immigrants Came to New England
In 1915, four Madeiran men organized a feast at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Bedford, Mass. They did it...
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5.2K4Business and LaborAmerica Gains Its First Map, the Mapmaker Gains Back His Ear
Abel Buell was an uncommonly ingenious cartographer who created the first map of the United States, but only after part of his...
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