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Merrimack River |
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Merrimack RiverRiver, northeastern U.S. Rising in the White Mountains of central New Hampshire, it flows south into Massachusetts, then turns northeast and empties into the Atlantic Ocean after a total course of 110 mi (177 km). The main cities along the river include Concord, Manchester, and Nashua, N.H., and Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill, Mass.; they used the river to power their textile mills in the 19th century. |
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| They headed to Lawrence, Massachusetts, one of the towns along the Merrimac River where immigrant families settled to work in textile mills, It was in the New England mill towns that some of the worst child-labor abuses of the Industrial Revolution occurred. On the other hand, he had little in common with his neighbor from the other side of the Merrimac River, Ted Kennedy, and the other lords bountiful of the welfare state. |
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