RMA Speaker Presentation
Date – September 8, 2023
Time – 10:00 AM
Location –
First Baptist Church, by reservation
Zoom – link will be sent a few days prior to meeting
Introduction – Jim Carlton
Topic – “Industry, Innovation, and ‘The Other Revolution’”
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Small industrial museum in a historic textile mill in Waltham
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1813, the mill was built by Boston Manufacturing Company
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established by Francis Cabot Lowell and partners
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Success had them establish the Merrimack Manufacturing Company
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Built mills on the banks of the Merrimack River in what was East Chelmsford
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1826, renamed Lowell in honor of Francis Cabot Lowell
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Speaker: – Bob Perry
BIOGRAPHY:
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Executive Director
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Since June 2015