Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1831/00/00 Nathan Appleton, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Amos Lawrence and Abbott Lawrence establish the Lawrence Manufacturing Company Established
1833/00/00 Lawrence Manufacturing Company begins manufacturing shirtings, sheetings and printing cloth. History Lowell National Historical Park Lowell, MA
1840/00/00 Lawrence Manufacturing employs 1290 women and only 200 men. Most of the Company's single female employees, like other Lowell mill girls, live in company-owned boardinghouses, where they are bound by regulations designed to keep them respectable and safe. History Lowell National Historical Park Lowell, MA
1862/00/00 Anticipating a shortage of cotton from the south for the duration of the Civil War, nine mills in Lowell, including Lawrence, shut down entirely. Ten thousand mill workers, about 1600 of whom work for Lawrence, lose there job. History Lowell National Historical Park Lowell, MA
1864/00/00 Lawrence Manufacturing Company restarts operations and adds the manufacturing of such knitted goods as hosiery and underwear. History Lowell National Historical Park Lowell, MA
1871/00/00 Lawrence Manufacturing Co begins using steam power and expands production. History Lowell National Historical Park Lowell, MA
1896/00/00 Lawrence Manufacturing Co discontinues the manufacturing of woven cotton cloth, their original product, to concentrate on knitted hosiery and underwear. History Lowell National Historical Park Lowell, MA
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