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state armoury. The value of the city's factory product was $48,036,593 in 1905, $41,741,980 in 1900. The manufacture of textiles is the most important See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry; in 1905 the city produced worsteds valued at $30,926,964 and See also:

cotton goods See also:

worth $5,745,611,the worsted product being greater than that of any other See also:

AMERICAN

American city. The See also:

Wood worsted See also:

mill here is said to be the largest single mill in the See also:

WORLD

world. The See also:

HISTORY

history of Lawrence is largely the history of its textile See also:

mills.

The See also:

TOWN

town was formed in 1845 from parts of Andover (S. of the Merrimac) and of See also:

METHUEN, BARONY OF

Methuen (N. of the river), and it was incorporated as a town in 1847, being named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

Abbott Lawrence, a director of the Essex See also:

COMPANY

company, organized in 1845 (on the same See also:

day as the formation of the town) for the See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of the water power and for the construction of the great dam across the Merrimac. The See also:

Bay State woollen mills, which in 1858 became the See also:

Washington mills, and the See also:

ATLANTIC

Atlantic cotton mills were both chartered in 1846. The Pacific mills (1853) introduced from See also:

England in 1854 See also:

Lister combs for worsted manufacture; and the Washington mills soon afterward began to make worsted See also:

DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress goods. Worsted cloths for men's See also:

WEAR

wear seem to have been made first about 1870 at nearly the same See also:

time in the Washington mills here, in the Hockanum mills of See also:

ROCKVILLE

Rockville, See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, and in Wanskuck mills, See also:

PROVIDENCE

Providence, Rhode See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island. The Pemberton mills, built in 1853, collapsed and after-wards took See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire on the loth of See also:

JANUARY

January 186o; go were killed and hundreds severely injured. Lawrence was chartered as a city in 1853, and annexed a small See also:

PART

part of Methuen in 1854 and parts of Andover and North Andover in 1879. See H. A. Wadsworth, History of Lawrence, Massachusetts (Lawrence, 188o).

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