All posts tagged "textile mills"
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70.6K42ConnecticutThe 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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98.9K28Arts 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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9.9K4Business and LaborAmerica Gains Its First Map, the Mapmaker Gains Back His Ear
Abel Buell, an uncommonly ingenious cartographer, created the first map of the United States. But he did it only after he lost...
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11.1K4Business and LaborIn 1915, Independence Day Was Americanization Day
“What is Americanization?” Future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis posed the question to a packed audience at Faneuil Hall in Boston marking...
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17.7K7Arts and LeisureThe 40 Angels of St. Ann, the Sistine Chapel of Woonsocket
St. Ann Roman Catholic Church in Woonsocket, R.I., was built from nickels and dimes donated by poor French-Canadian millworkers and their families...
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10.0K7MassachusettsBetsey Guppy Chamberlain Promotes the Radical Notion That Indians Are People
Betsey Guppy Chamberlain, a half-Algonquian mill girl, published some of the first – if not the first — criticisms of the way...
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