Because steel was the most important industry there.
They ran on water power
In essence to produce clean energy at low cost
The first commercial dam was built in 1882 in Appleton, Wisconsin. It powered two paper mills and a small private home.
How did the first textile Mills Work? Did children work in the textile mills? Yes children did work in the textile mill.They mainly white poor children.
The earliest mills were powered with horses or mules in a rotary turnstyle, as seen in the Beverly Cotton Manufactory, however later mills used water power, since that was less interruptable and provided more power for the factories.
Shipping goods, and major towns were located among the lake to, such as: Chicago, Duluth MN , Milwakee
Cotton mills, corn mills, etc. where built along streams and rivers to use water power to run the machinery. When steam-engines took over, the factories and mills could be built anywhere.
Texas
They ran on water power
parents and children working together in mills
Because there were many sources and the population at the time was much larger than that of the south. But after the civil war and the reconstruction of the south alot of the textile mills moved the the south.Trueee but it was because the great lakes. And at the time the textile mills used the water to get power. But the water goes along with the sources but still, it was The Great Lakes.
Pulp mills and paper mills use a large amount of water from lakes, rivers and, in some cases, oceans
Because these new machines ran on water power, most mills were built near rivers.
near a river
Factories and Mills
Many saw mills of the 1700's were built near woods. The saw mills were also built near or on top of water sources as a means of power and for easy transport.
The millers crushed the grain between heavy stones to produce flour or meal. Human or animal power fueled some of these mills. But water wheels built along the region's plentiful rivers powerd most of the mills.