Boston Manufacturing Company
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Boston Manufacturing Company was organized during the War of 1812 by The Boston Associates previously engaged in the India trade. It built at Waltham, Massachusetts the first complete textile factory in America, combining power spinning and weaving, on looms invented by one of the proprietors. This proved a pilot plant for the larger factories later built at Lowell.
Source: Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940
