"Another of Lowell's innovations was in hiring young farm girls to work in the mill. He paid them lower wages than men, but offered benefits that many girls, some as young as 15, were eager to earn. Mill girls lived in clean company boardinghouses with chaperones, were paid cash, and benefitted from religious and educational activities. Waltham boomed as workers flocked to Lowell's novel enterprise."
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Francis Cabot Lowell He created the first mill town in America
Massachusetts.
1790
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They opened textile mills that employed many workers.
Francis Cabot Lowell invented the textile mill
Francis Cabot Lowell
Francis Cabot Lowell
Francis Cabot Lowell has written: 'Joan of Arc'
Francis Cabot Lowell - judge - was born in 1855.
Francis Cabot Lowell - judge - died in 1911.
The creator of Lowell Mills in Francis Cabot Lowell.
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Francis Cabot Lowell (businessman) was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States.
Francis Cabot Lowell - businessman - died on 1817-08-10.