Cotton Mills in New England
In the early industrial period, one of the first products to be manufactured in New England on a large scale with water power was cotton cloth. Many New England towns grew into prosperous cities thanks to their rivers and their cotton mills. Hayward's Gazetteer documented many towns in which the production cotton cloth was an especially prominent business in the 1830s:
Cotton Mills in Maine
- Brunswick, Maine
- Gorham, Maine
- Kennebunk, Maine
- Lewiston, Maine
- Lisbon, Maine
- Saco, Maine
- Sanford, Maine
- Westbrook, Maine
- Winthrop, Maine
Cotton Mills in New Hampshire
- Brentwood, New Hampshire
- Bristol, New Hampshire
- Chesterfield, New Hampshire
- Dover, New Hampshire
- Exeter, New Hampshire
- Franklin, New Hampshire
- Gilford, New Hampshire
- Gilsum, New Hampshire
- Goffstown, New Hampshire
- Hancock, New Hampshire
- Hillsborough, New Hampshire
- Hooksett, New Hampshire
- Jaffrey, New Hampshire
- Mason, New Hampshire
- Meredith, New Hampshire
- Nashua, New Hampshire
- Nelson, New Hampshire
- New Ipswich, New Hampshire
- Pittsfield, New Hampshire
- Swanzey, New Hampshire
- Wakefield, New Hampshire
- Winchester, New Hampshire
Cotton Mills in Massachusetts
- Adams, Massachusetts
- Chester, Massachusetts
- Coleraine, Massachusetts
- Easton, Massachusetts
- Fairhaven, Massachusetts
- Fall River, Massachusetts
- Franklin, Massachusetts
- Hopkinton, Massachusetts
- Ludlow, Massachusetts
- Marshfield, Massachusetts
- Middleborough, Massachusetts
- Millbury, Massachusetts
- Monson, Massachusetts
- Oxford, Massachusetts
- Palmer, Massachusetts
- Pawtucket, Massachusetts
- Pittsfield, Massachusetts
- Seekonk, Massachusetts
- Sharon, Massachusetts
- Shirley, Massachusetts
- Southbridge, Massachusetts
- Sturbridge, Massachusetts
- Taunton, Massachusetts
- Uxbridge, Massachusetts
- Waltham, Massachusetts
- Wareham, Massachusetts
- Webster, Massachusetts
- West Boylston, Massachusetts
- Wrentham, Massachusetts
Cotton Mills in Connecticut
- East Haddam, Connecticut
- Sterling, Connecticut
- Voluntown, Connecticut
- Westport, Connecticut
- Windham, Connecticut
