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One of the Worst Industrial Accidents in American History by Collapse of the Pemberton Mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts, January 10, 1860 -- Poet Was Himself a Mill Worker

by Collapse of the Pemberton Mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts, January 10, 1860 -- Poet Was Himself a Mill Worker

One of the Worst Industrial Accidents in American History by Collapse of the Pemberton Mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts, January 10, 1860 -- Poet Was Himself a Mill Worker

One of the Worst Industrial Accidents in American History

by Collapse of the Pemberton Mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts, January 10, 1860 -- Poet Was Himself a Mill Worker

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Over 100 workers, many of them women and children, were killed in the collapse and subsequent fire of this underbuilt and overloaded textile plant. Jason E. Cowden (1837-1884) is enumerated in Amesbury, Massachusetts, as a mill worker (1855) and as a hat factory worker (1860, 1870, 1880).

WorldCat Locates AAS, Boston Athenaeum, UNC.
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