Examples of mill town in the following topics:
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- In the early and mid-19th century, mills proliferated in New England.
- In 1898 the Illinois Supreme Court required Pullman to dissolve their ownership of the town.
- At their peak there were more than 2,500 company towns, housing 3% of the US population.
- Mill towns, sometimes planned, built, and owned as a company town, grew in the shadow of the industries.
- The regions around mill towns became manufacturing powerhouses along rivers like the Housatonic River, Quinebaug River, Shetucket River, Blackstone River, Merrimack River, Nashua River, Cochecho River, Saco River, Androscoggin River, Kennebec River, and Winooski River.
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- Children aged 7 to 12 were among the first employees of the mill.
- Slater provided company-owned housing and stores, creating mill villages.
- This new settlement was incorporated as the town of Lowell in 1826.
- This system was replicated elsewhere throughout New England, often in mill towns developed by the Boston Associates.
- The Lowell mill girls lived in collective housing, under strict supervision.
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- A demand for it already existed in the industrial textile mills in Great Britain, and in time, a steady stream of slave-grown American cotton would also supply northern textile mills.
- Additionally, the development of large-scale mills and metal machine tools dramatically increased textile production in Northern mill towns in the early 1800s.
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- As New England's textile industry took off, mill villages quickly grew into large factory towns, attracting rural workers from the surrounding countryside.
- Slater's mills ran on a business model of mill villages that employed all members of a family, called the "Rhode Island System".
- Following his death in 1817, Lowell's associates built America's first planned factory town: the eponymous Lowell, Massachusetts.
- Though considered an improvement on the squalid conditions of factory towns in the United Kingdom, conditions in the Lowell mills were severe by modern American standards.
- Similar strikes occurred at Lowell and in other mill towns like Dover, New Hampshire, where the women employed by the Cocheco Manufacturing Company ceased working in December 1828 after their wages were reduced.
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- In 1793, he established a cotton-spinning mill with a fully mechanized water power system at the Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
- At its peak, over 1,000 mills operated in this valley.
- Slater went on to build several more cotton and wool mills throughout New England.
- Slater's mills ran on a business model of mill villages that employed all members of a family, called the "Rhode Island System".
- Following his death in 1817, Lowell's associates built America's first planned factory town: the eponymous Lowell, Massachusetts.
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- Picket lines were thrown up around the plant and the town, and 24-hour shifts established.
- At 4:00 p.m., events at the mill quickly began to wind down.
- O'Donnell guaranteed them safe passage out of town.
- But the militia managed to keep its arrival in the town a secret almost to the last moment.
- On July 18, the town was placed under martial law, further disheartening many of the strikers.
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- Prompted by one mill owner's decision to lower wages when a new law shortening the workweek went into effect in January, the strike spread rapidly through the town, growing to more than twenty thousand workers at nearly every mill within a week.
- Joseph Ettor (of the IWW) and Arturo Giovannitti (of the Italian Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party of America) quickly assumed leadership of the strike, forming a strike committee made up of two representatives from each ethnic group in the mills, which took responsibility for all major decisions.
- The city responded to the strike with a company of local militia to patrol the streets and harass strikers picketing in front of the mills.
- When mill owners turned fire hoses on the picketers gathered in front of the mills, they responded by throwing ice at the plants, breaking a number of windows.
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- Upon hearing about the conditions in the Loray Mill, Fred Beal of the National Textile Workers Union (NTWU), a communist labor union, as well as a member of the Trade Union Unity League, began focusing his attention on the small town of Gastonia.
- The workers voted unanimously to strike and on April 1, 1,800 mill workers from the Loray Mill walked off their jobs to protest intolerable working conditions.
- In response, management evicted families from mill-owned homes.
- Nearly 100 masked men destroyed the NTWU's headquarters on April 18 and as a result, the NTWU started a tent city on the outskirts of town that was protected by armed strikers at all times.
- On June 7, 150 workers marched to the mill to call out the night shift.
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- All the provinces, and many towns as well, tried to foster economic growth by subsidizing projects that improved the infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, inns and ferries.
- They gave bounties and subsidies or monopolies to sawmills, grist mills, iron mills, pulling mills (which treated cloth), salt works, and glassworks.
- In the towns and cities, there was strong entrepreneurship, and a steady increase in the specialization of labor.
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- The town meeting levied taxes, built roads, and elected officials who managed town affairs, and every male citizen had a voice in the town meeting.
- The towns did not have courts; courts were instead a function of a larger unit, the county, and court officials were appointed by the colony government.
- All of the provinces and many towns tried to foster economic growth by subsidizing projects that improved the infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, inns, and ferries.
- They gave bounties and subsidies or monopolies to sawmills, grist mills, iron mills, pulling mills (which treated cloth), salt works, and glassworks.
- In the towns and cities, there was strong entrepreneurship and a steady increase in the specialization of labor.