The stories of the families of Dudley cannot be told without acknowledging the impact on the town's growth by the industrial revolution.
Dudley's mills included: Merino Woolen Mill, started in 1812 by a number of early residents. Original building was bought in 1846 by Henry Hale Stevens to manufacture linen. http://stevensmill.americanmills.com/AboutTheArea.asp
Biographical notes about Henry Hale Stevens can be found at the digitized version of Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Massachusetts, Vol II, prepared by William Richard Cutter. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910.
http://books.google.com/books?id=l84UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1019&lpg=PA1019&dq=henry+hale+stevens+biography&source=bl&ots=8bEe-5FIC8&sig=BX6FcoW5g89ZsBtnHylZQQE64x8&hl=en&ei=tXMQSuaqPMXktgeAstn1Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5
At the Pearle L Crawford Memorial Library see:
The Coming of Industrial Order: town and factory life in rural Massachusetts 1810-1860, Jonathan Prude. Amherst:University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
A New Order of Things: How the Textile Industry Transformed New England, Paul E. Rivard. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2002.
The American Textile Museum in Lowell holds the historic papers and records of Stevens Mill: http://mail.athm.org/info.php?s=stevens+linen&type=all&t=objects. This includes a pamphlet by Pearle L. Crawford: The early cottage manufacture of linen.
Also by Pearle Crawford, 1968, in The New England Galaxy, an Old Sturbridge Village publication: "Stevens Linen, Its First Century and a Half,"
and an earlier article in Textile Age (May, 1946) entitled "Stevens Linen Associates, Inc." written for the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its beginning.
Dudley's mills included: Merino Woolen Mill, started in 1812 by a number of early residents. Original building was bought in 1846 by Henry Hale Stevens to manufacture linen. http://stevensmill.americanmills.com/AboutTheArea.asp
Biographical notes about Henry Hale Stevens can be found at the digitized version of Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Massachusetts, Vol II, prepared by William Richard Cutter. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910.
http://books.google.com/books?id=l84UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1019&lpg=PA1019&dq=henry+hale+stevens+biography&source=bl&ots=8bEe-5FIC8&sig=BX6FcoW5g89ZsBtnHylZQQE64x8&hl=en&ei=tXMQSuaqPMXktgeAstn1Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5
At the Pearle L Crawford Memorial Library see:
The Coming of Industrial Order: town and factory life in rural Massachusetts 1810-1860, Jonathan Prude. Amherst:University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
A New Order of Things: How the Textile Industry Transformed New England, Paul E. Rivard. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2002.
The American Textile Museum in Lowell holds the historic papers and records of Stevens Mill: http://mail.athm.org/info.php?s=stevens+linen&type=all&t=objects. This includes a pamphlet by Pearle L. Crawford: The early cottage manufacture of linen.
Also by Pearle Crawford, 1968, in The New England Galaxy, an Old Sturbridge Village publication: "Stevens Linen, Its First Century and a Half,"
and an earlier article in Textile Age (May, 1946) entitled "Stevens Linen Associates, Inc." written for the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its beginning.
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