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New York Mills - The Evolution of a Village (Hardcover)
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New York Mills - The Evolution of a Village (Hardcover)
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Local communities can often provide a microcosm for examining the
larger experience of American history and culture. Such is the case
with this newly published history of New York Mills. This history
traces the evolution of the village through successive periods
beginning with the original English, Scottish and Welsh settlers
and the establishment of their religious, cultural and social
patterns, to the arrival of French-Canadian workers in the 1870s
and 1880s, followed by Polish, Italian and Syro-Lebanese immigrants
between 1890 and 1920. As the culture of the village changed, so
did its focus, from distributing work to employees who worked at
home to the development of modern factories, through serious labor
unrest and World War I, the Depression and the eventual closing of
the textile mills in the 1950s. The book chronicles how the village
and its people adapted to these environmental changes, survived and
prospered, while at the same time making significant contributions
to American society beyond what would be expected from a small
village.
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