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Honoring textile workers more important than mills. It's obvious that we preservationists have lost the long and often contentious battle to keep Fairhaven Mills Building No. 4 standing for posterity.
How Important Were Textile Mill Workers? Textile mill workers were once the backbone of Mumbai's industrial landscape. Houses are to be provided to workers from the 58 mills that were closed ...
British readers expected mill workers to come from the lower classes because the first British mills sought the cheapest labor. This lowest-common-denominator approach wouldn't have worked in Lowell.
Hundreds of those former textile workers took advantage of free tickets to Saturday’s Kannapolis Intimidators game at Fieldcrest-Cannon Stadium, still named for their former employer.
Established in 1983 on a sprawling 30-acre site in the Magura area on the outskirts of Satkhira town, Sundarban Textile Mills once employed over 1,500 workers. The mill boasted more than 39,000 ...
Nick Lubecki has been an urban farmer in Pittsburgh for the last 15 years. The heat has noticeably intensified over that time, with back-to-back summers of sweltering temperatures affecting when ...
The 1910 former textile mill building in downtown Lawrence that Reed Community Partners is converting into Pac10 Lofts, a mixed income, multifamily housing development. By John Laidler, The Boston ...
Former mill town buzzes with new activity influenced by history. Brunswick, Maine has repurposed its textile mill, maintained the Androscoggin Bridge, and honors the shuttered Naval Air Station ...
The former Cheney Mill, a historic textile mill in Pendleton, South Carolina, is being redeveloped into Pendleton Mill Lofts, a mixed-use development with up to 150 apartments and retail space ...
This 7.5 foot tall bronze statue of a textile mill worker and her child called “Can you see me,” by Jane DeDecker, was unveiled Friday morning in the courtyard of The Lofts at Saco Falls in ...
How Important Were Textile Mill Workers? Textile mill workers were once the backbone of Mumbai's industrial landscape. Houses are to be provided to workers from the 58 mills that were closed down ...