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“THE COTTON MILLS OF DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: 125 YEARS OF MANUFACTURING”
Date and Time
Tuesday Mar 7, 2017
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EST1:30 pm
Location
Durham Evangelical Church 114 Dover Road (Route 108) Durham, NH 03824
Fees/Admission
FREE
Website
“THE COTTON MILLS OF DOVER, NEW HAMPS...Description
If you’ve ever visited Dover, New Hampshire, you’ll remember the massive brick structures that dominate the center of downtown. But what do you know about their origins and history? The Seacoast Memorial Lecture Series welcomes Cathleen Beaudoin, Director of the Dover Public Library, who will explore this legacy in “The Cotton Mills of Dover, New Hampshire: 125 Years of Manufacturing.” The presentation is free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome. Please join us on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 1:30 pm, at the Durham Evangelical Church, 114 Dover Road (Route 108), Durham, NH, to learn more about the mills and the people who made them possible. Astute Dover businessmen began to take advantage of Cocheco River water power in the early 18th century. Their Dover Cotton Factory matured into the flourishing Dover Manufacturing Company, grew to become the renowned and highly prosperous Cocheco Manufacturing Company and Print Works, and sputtered to an inglorious close during the Depression as the Cocheco Division of Pacific Mills. From the mills’ beginnings in 1812 to their demise in 1937, events both inspiring and abysmal shaped their course, including the first strike by women in the United States (1828), a worldwide calico operation that printed 65 million yards of fabric annually during the 1880s, industrial spying, “dung baths,” waves of immigrants, and disastrous fires and floods. The mills shaped not only the generations of people who worked there, but also the civic direction and economic development of the City of Dover. Cathy Beaudoin, a Dover resident for over 40 years, has served as Director of the Dover Public Library since 1999. She is the co-author, with Robert Whitehouse, of Port of Dover: Two Centuries of Shipping on the Cochecho, and contributed an essay about Dover’s mills to Cross-Grained & Wily Waters: A Guide to the Piscataqua Maritime Region, edited by Jeffrey Bolster. Ms. Beaudoin leads historical tours of downtown Dover, writes and produces historical re-enactment events for the Dover Main Street program and the Woodman Museum, and recently developed a daily series for Foster’s Daily Democrat featuring “The History of the Woodman Museum in 100 Objects.” The Seacoast Memorial Lecture Series is a public service presentation of the Active Retirement Association (ARA). The ARA is supported by annual dues from its 300+ members who represent 35 communities in southern Maine and New Hampshire. For additional information, visit the ARA website at www.unh.edu/ara or phone or email Membership Director Carol Caldwell at 603-343-1004 or info@ara-nh.org. (ARA, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is not affiliated with any political, religious, ethnic, or special interest group.)
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