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Acts And Resolves Passed By The General Court Of Massachusetts
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Author : Massachusetts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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Acts And Resolves Passed By The General Court Of Massachusetts
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Author : Massachusetts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1921
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Acts And Resolves Passed By The General Court Of Massachusetts In The Year
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Author : Massachusetts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
Acts And Resolves Passed By The General Court Of Massachusetts In The Year written by Massachusetts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Session laws categories.
The Massachusetts Register
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language : en
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Release Date : 1852
The Massachusetts Register written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with Almanacs, American categories.
Acts And Resolves Passed By The General Court
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Author : Massachusetts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Acts And Resolves Passed By The General Court written by Massachusetts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Session laws categories.
The Massachusetts Register And United States Calendar For The Year Of Our Lord
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language : en
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Release Date : 1852
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In The Shadow Of The Dam
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Author : Elizabeth M. Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-08-10
In The Shadow Of The Dam written by Elizabeth M. Sharpe and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-10 with History categories.
Early one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. In just thirty minutes, the Mill River flood left 139 people dead and 740 homeless -- and a nation wondering how this terrible calamity had happened. In this compelling tale of a man-made disaster peopled with everyday heroes and arrogant scoundrels, Elizabeth Sharpe opens a rare window into industry and village life in nineteenth-century New England, a time when dam failures and other industrial accidents were widespread and laws favored factory owners rather than factory workers. In the Mill Valley, the townsfolk depended upon generally benevolent patriarchs who assured them that the dam was safe, when most people could see that it was not. The story of the Mill River flood is the story of those townsfolk: of George Cheney, the dam keeper whose repeated warnings about leaks in the dam had been ignored by the mill owners; of his wife, Elizabeth, who watched in disbelief as the dam burst open from the bottom; of Isabell Hayden, the mother who saw her young son swept away in the river's torrent; and of Fred Howard, a box maker who spent the days after the flood searching for bodies, burying friends, and waiting to see if the button factory he relied upon for his livelihood would be rebuilt. It is also the story of the well-meaning but overconfident businessmen who built the dam: of Onslow Spelman, the manufacturer who dismissed the dam keeper's flood warning, irrationally insisting that the dam could not break; of Lucius Fenn and Joel Bassett, the engineer and contractor whose roles in the construction of the dam would be questioned during the public inquest into the causes of the flood; of William Skinner, the factory owner who struggled to decide whether or not to rebuild his silk factory in the village that bore his name; and of many others. The flood highlighted class divisions between worker and owner, as well as the disorganized state of professional engineering, then still in its infancy. As the flood exposed the dangers of allowing mill owners -- who were not trained engineers -- to design their own dam, legislation to regulate the building of reservoir dams in Massachusetts was enacted for the first time. Engineers, politicians, and business owners battled over control of the reform measures to prevent similar tragedies, yet saw them continually repeated. In the Shadow of the Dam is the story of an event that reshaped a society. Told through the eyes of villagers like Collins Graves, lauded as a hero for his desperate ride through the valley to warn people of the impending flood, and industrialists like Joel Hayden Jr., entrusted with the responsibility of disaster relief despite his culpability in failing to maintain the leaking dam, In the Shadow of the Dam is a history of our uneasy relationship with industrial progress and a riveting narrative of a tragic disaster in small-town Massachusetts.
Miscellaneous Documents Read In The Legislature Of The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania
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Author : Pennsylvania. General Assembly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
Miscellaneous Documents Read In The Legislature Of The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. General Assembly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with categories.
Catalogue Of The Library Of The General Court
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language : en
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Release Date : 1858
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The Acts And Resolves Public And Private Of The Province Of The Massachusetts Bay
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Author : Massachusetts (Colony).
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
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With historical and explanatory notes, and an appendix.