Merrimack Manufacturing Company
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The Merrimack Manufacturing Company (also known as Merrimack Mills) was the first of the major textile manufacturing concerns to open in Lowell, Massachusetts, beginning operations in 1823.[1]
History
Lowell System. Initially capitalized with $600,000,[2] its typical product was calico cloth. Situated at the foot of the Merrimack Canal, the original mills received the full 32' drop of the river. Closely associated with the Proprietors of Locks and Canals and at one point, merged with the company under the same agents (such as Kirk Boott
), the Merrimack Company was the "parent" company of the later Lowell firms - although they were technically competitors. The Merrimack Company also was very powerful in the politics of the settlement, later town, and later city, of Lowell.
However, as textile production in the United States shifted away from
Lowell High School
.
From 1900 until 1946, the Merrimack Manufacturing Company ran a plant in Huntsville, Alabama as well.[4]
External links
Archives and records
- Merrimack Manufacturing Company records at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School.
- ISBN 978-1-59869-428-4.
- ^ Clark, Victor S (1916). History of Manufactures in the United States 1607-1860. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington. p. 405.
- ^ "Merrimack Company Demolition". Center for Lowell History. University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
- ^ Fisk, Sarah Huff; Jenkins, Debra (Winter–Spring 2008). Jacquelyn Proctor Reeves (ed.). "Merrimack Mill History" (PDF). Huntsville Historical Review. 33 (1). Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society: 75–84. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 17, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2014.