Child Workers at Beaver Mill, North Adams

ID: 782 ~ Source: “Beaver Mill Inside,” Industrial America, accessed March 9, 2021, http://www.carmichaeldigitalprojects.org/industrialamerica/items/show/37.
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Child Workers at Beaver Mill, North Adams
Courtesy of the North Adams Historical Society.

Children working the machinery at Beaver Mill

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By Kolby Clegg
The Beaver Cotton Mill was first established in 1832 through a partnership between Major Lorenzo Rice and George Bly. The mill was situated on the meeting point between the Hoosac River and the Hudson Brook, where there was a massive beaver dam.…