By John T. Cumbler
ISBN-10: 0195138139
ISBN-13: 9780195138139
ISBN-10: 142373856X
ISBN-13: 9781423738565
This e-book is a learn of the influence of industrialization and urbanization at the atmosphere of recent England as a rule and the Connecticut River Valley specifically, and of the numerous public responses the effect engendered. The narrative engages the reader with biographical vignettes woven into the bigger narrative and crosses a number of historic fields by way of combining business, city, environmental, criminal, and political heritage.
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The proprietors then faced the possibility of an endless number of suits, and they lacked the capital to rebuild the dam and canal in such a fashion as to not flood the fields of Northampton. In desperation, the proprietors turned to the state for help. In 1802, the state granted the proprietors a lottery grant, a legislative privilege that was used in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to raise money for public and private projects. 138 Lotteries were not the only way the major canal projects were supported.
10 Peace with England in 1815 brought not only an end of war and of war orders for cotton and wool but also a flood of English manufactured goods to the American market. Most of the small cotton mills went under in 34 Reasonable Use the ensuing years. 11 The years following the peace brought the first real depression to inland New England since Shays's rebellion. The depression may have closed Job Cotton's mill, but it did not return the valley to its more traditional past. Although the general depression in the postwar years wiped out most of the small manufacturing operations, the better-capitalized mills with big dams, overshot waterwheels, and newer machinery weathered the depression and continued to grow.
103 Any one person or group of persons could take advantage of this fact. 104 New England settlers were anxious both to protect access to the fisheries for members of the community and to protect the resource from depletion. That balancing act was accomplished by a series of statutes passed while settlements still hugged the eastern seaboard. "106 But while the colonies extended fishing rights to all freeholders to any navigable waterway and great pond, they also limited fishing in order to protect the resource.