Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . the Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River waslimited to passing Wicasse Falls by a single lock and passing PawtucketFalls by five locks, and a canal one and three-quarters miles long, with. a fall of thirty-two feet. This is believed to be the first canal inAmerica in which boats were lifted from one level to another whenfloating in the lock. Its charter was dated but thir
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . the Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River waslimited to passing Wicasse Falls by a single lock and passing PawtucketFalls by five locks, and a canal one and three-quarters miles long, with. a fall of thirty-two feet. This is believed to be the first canal inAmerica in which boats were lifted from one level to another whenfloating in the lock. Its charter was dated but thirty-three years afterthat of the Bridgewater Canal in Lancashire, England, which was thecommencement of the British Barge Navigation. Patrick T. Jackson, Nathan Appleton and others, who, with FrancisC. Lowell, in 1814, commenced cotton manufacture at Waltham, on fheCharles River, found in 1821 that their waterpower was all in use, anddesiring to extend their business introduce into the country themanufacture and printing of calicoes, they purchased the stock of tRecanal company and a large area of land adjacent to the canal, nearPawtucket Falls, in the town of Chelmsford, and were chartered under. r ^ ^k .^ ^ ^ ^
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