Lowell model textile city on the Merrimack

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Lowell model textile city on the Merrimack

… The Merrimack Manufacturing Company owned by the group that also shared the Boston Manufacturing Company, was the first to operate cotton mills at Lowell, having as a manager Kirk Boott, who later manufactured some of the first locomotives in America. Using newly designed machines by Paul Moody, Patrick Tracy Jackson and some partners started the Appleton Company which soon operated two large mills at Lowell …

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