Lawrence
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Lawrence (1990 census, 70,207) is an industrial
city in Essex County, northeastern
Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River. First settled in 1655, it was chosen by Abbott Lawrence and other
Boston entrepreneurs as the site of a planned industrial
city, which was laid out in 1845. Lawrence soon became a major center for the manufacture of woolen textiles, its
mills employing thousands of immigrant workers. In 1912 the
Industrial Workers of the World led a famous strike of the Lawrence millworkers and won substantial concessions from the employers.
bibliography: Cole, Donald B., Immigrant
city: Lawrence,
Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (1963; repr. 1980).Map Location[s]N.
Adams, Greenfield,
Pittsfield, Northampton,
Holyoke, Springfield, Worcester, Leominster, Fitchburg,
Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Gloucester,
Lynn,
Boston, Cambridge, Framingham,
Quincy,
Brockton, Attleboro, Taunton, Plymouth,
Fall River,
New Bedford,
Buzzards Bay,
Hyannis,
Provincetown,
Nantucket Island,
Martha's Vineyard,
Elizabeth Island.
