The Spindle City
- Description:
- Lowell, Massachusetts, was known as “The Spindle City” for being one of the largest textile mill towns in the world. This note, handwritten just two months before the start of the Civil War, lists some of the statistics concerning textiles manufactured in Lowell. On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
- Attribution:
- Unknown creator
- Date:
- February 21, 1861
- Exhibit Tags:
- Industrialization
- Copyright:
- This item is presumed to be in the public domain by virtue of creation date.