LETTER: Celebrate History of Waltham's Historic Mill

The following is a letter to the editor.

The following was submitted as a letter to the editor by State Reps. Thomas Stanley, Michael Barrett and John Lawn.  We are proud to represent a city so rich with history, especially as we celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the Francis Cabot Lowell at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation in Waltham.  Though many of us drive by the “Mill” every day, few people are aware of its special historical contribution to Waltham, the Commonwealth, and the nation. In 1810, Francis Cabot Lowell, during a time when the nation still depended on other countries for manufactured goods, visited the mills of Manchester, England and saw both power spinning mills and power weaving mills. Convinced that he could reinvent the machinery, …

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