Machines+Bring+Change+-+Working+in+the+Lowell+Mills

=== In 1814 a man named Francis Cabot Lowell buit the Lowell Mill in Boston, Massachuesettes. The workers in the first textile mills were girls and young women from the New England countryside. They left home to earn money for themselves and their families. Some girls were as young as 10 years old. Mill workers lived in boardinghouses. Their workday began at 5:00 A.M. and ended at 7:00 P.M., with only one hour of free time. They still found time to take classes, learn new languages, write poems, stories, and essays. They published these in a magazine called "//The Lowell Offering".// One mill worker, named //__Lucy Larcom__//, became a well-known writer and teacher. Later in her life, she wrote about what is was like to work in the Lowell Mills. ===

===Famous Saying by Lucy Larcom: "The buzzing and hissing and whizzing of pulleys and rollers and spindles and flyers... " Before the industrail Revolution started people that worked in the Mills worked in small workshops shops or on there farm. When people worked in the Mills they would do the same thing over and over again. In 1831 a guy named Cyrus Mccormick invented a horsedraw reaper. His father Robert Mccormick invented farm machines. His father built a reaper but Mccormick fixted his mistake in 1831. IT WORKED! But he died in 1884. === ===​  ​===

Source: Social Studies ebook
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