His dreams came true in a manner exceeding his expectations. The town developed almost overnight. Acres of redbrick factory buildings crowded the banks of the river. gathering raw material from the wide world and scattering finished products far and near. Immigrants came from all parts of the earth to man the looms and the spinning machines. How much the mills depended upon the water power furnished by the Merrimack may be gleaned from statistics published in 1880. The motive power of the Washington Mills. producing 280.000 yards of goods a week. consists of 7 water wheels of 1.025 horsepower and two engines of 1.000 horsepower.
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