Central Massachusetts: Facing the Second Industrial Revolution
John R. Mullin, University of Massachusetts
DATE: January 1997
SOURCE: Massachusetts Benchmarks, Vol1, No1, p. 14
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ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT:
This article from the Vol. 1, No. 1 (fall 1997) Massachusetts Benchmarks journal was reprinted with permission from Massachusetts Benchmarks.
ABSTRACT:
The cities and towns of Central Massachusetts, many of which played a critical role in the nation's first industrial revolution, are in dramatic flux. Indeed, it is common to note the mills formed under Samuel Slater's nineteenth century system of manufacturing now juxtaposed with futuristic industries making products for the new millennium. The region serves as both the center of the Commonwealth and of New England. From the cultural attractions of Worcester's famed institutions, to skiing on Mount Wachusett, to tourism in the Blackstone Valley, to pockets of modernized traditional industries, to high technology firms and biotech research, the area is steadily transforming itself.