Miles, Rev. Henry A. Lowell, As it was, and as it is. Lowell: Powers and Bagley, 1845. A scarce promotional history of the development of the industrial city of Lowell. Known for its textile mills the city was seen as a glorious opportunity for the working class and especially as a way young woman to find wage work.
CONTENTS.
Indian History, 9
First Canal, 13
East Chelmsford, 17
Waltham the Parent of Lowell, 21
Purchase of the Canal and Farms. 24
Commencement of Operations, 28
Reorganization, 30
The New Manufacturing Village, 32
The Town of Lowell, 35
The City of Lowell, 41
Locks and Canals Company, 45
Merrimack Manufacturing Company, 48
Hamilton Manufacturing Company, 49
Appleton Manufacturing Company, 50
Lowell Manufacturing Company, 51
Middlesex Manufacturing Company, 52
Suffolk Manufacturing Company, 53
Tremont Manufacturing Company, 54
Lawrence Manufacturing Company, 54
Boott Manufacturing Company, 55
Massachusetts Manufacturing Company, 56
Smaller Manufacturing and Mechanical Establishments, 57
Lowell in 1845, 58
A Lowell Corporation, 61
A Lowell Boarding-house, 67 A Lowell Cotton Mill, 76
Lowell Calico Printing, 84
A Lowell Woollen Mill, 94
A Lowell Carpet Mill, 97
Hours of Labor, 101
Wages, - Ill
Provisions for the Comfort and Health of the Operatives, 116
Moral Police of the Corporation, 128
Boarding-house Statistics, 146
MHl Statistics, 162
Moral and Intellectual Advantages, 194
Churches.- . . 197
Schools, 200
City Library, - 201
Lowell Offering, 202
Savings' Bank, 204
Lowell Institute. 205
Ministry at Large, 206
Lowell Hospital, 207
Lowell Dispensary, 208
Howard Benevolent Society, 209
Lowell Cemetery, 209
Conclusion, 211
APPENDIX.
Francis Cabot Lowell, -217
Paul Moody, 225
Kirk Boott, 228
Warren Colburn, 231
Luther Lawrence, 233
Robert Means, 234
PREFACE
THE unexampled growth of the city of Lowell gives interest to some notice of the successive steps by which it has attained to its present importance, of the extent of its manufacturing operations, and of the actual condition of its industrious population. An unsettled territory of pasture and meadow has, within the memory of the middle-aged, been covered with substantial edifices, mills, stores, churches, blocks of houses, the prosperous homes of nearly thirty thousand people; thus almost realizing the creations of some oriental fable, at least emulating in a few years what, in other places, has been the slow growth of centu-
From the size of this book the reader will not expect any thing more than what the brief time allowed the author permitted him to prepare a work which, without the minuteness of a history, will yet supply the information which all visitors to this city wish to obtain. To the citizens and operatives of Lowell, likewise, it is hoped that this book will not be without value. Following a rapid sketch of the growth of this place, there will be found a variety of statistical facts, collected from the Agents, the Overseers, the Operatives, and the Matrons of the boarding-houses. On this portion of the book much the most care has been bestowed. The great questions relating to Lowell are those which concern the health and character of its laboring classes. It is believed that more full and precise information on these points is given in the following pages, than has ever before been published. The object constantly kept in view has been, not the statement of opinions and impressions, but that careful presentation of facts which will enable a stranger to judge for himself.
It is singular that a place, not yet twenty-five years old, should already have fabulous stories mingled with its history. Yet such is the case. The accounts which have been published of the chance discovery of the water-power at Pawtucket Falls by a sportsman, and of the report of an engineer, subsequently made, that there was no water-power here, are wholly without foundation. Great pains have been taken to arrive at an exact knowledge of the facts respecting the origin of Lowell, and it is known that they are correctly stated in this book.
In the preparation of the following pages, important assistance has been received from Patrick T. Jackson, Esq., from Dr. E. Hobbs, of Waltham, from the Agents of the Corporations in this city, and from other sources indicated in the course of the work. Independent of the gratification of a natural curiosity respecting the rise and progress of one of the greatest enterprises of the age, the present publication will answer a more palpably useful purpose, if it shall recommend, to other manufacturing towns and cities, that well devised system, and careful moral regime^ which have here been established.
LOWELL, 1845.
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