they were the first to manufacture raw cotton into finished cloth in one place.
The Lowell mills, textile mills in the village, employed farm girls who lived in company-owned boardinghouses.
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Opened A Textile Plant In Waltham,Massachusetts
A few girls who came with their mothers or older sisters were as young as ten years old, some were middle-aged. Most of them were between the ages of 16 and and a little older or a little younger.