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Sort Desciption: Economic History of the Massachusetts SouthCoast. The Wampanoag Indians were the original natives of the SouthCoast. The. tribe has lived for at least 10000 ...

Content Inside: Economic History of the Massachusetts SouthCoast The Wampanoag Indians were the original natives of the SouthCoast. The tribe has lived for at least 10000 years at Aquinnah (Gay Head on Marthas Vineyard) where they pursued a traditional economy based on fishing and agriculture. In the early 1600s the Wampanoag Indians had a population of approximately 12000 divided between the main lands and the coastal islands. During the years between 1612 and 1620 epidemics devastated the Wampanoag Indian population and many villages were abandoned. The population had been cut by at least half by the time of the landing of the Pilgrims. The SouthCoast has a storied industrial history that spans from the early 1800s to the present. In 1811 Colonel Joseph Durfee opened the Globe Manufactory in Fall River which was the first textile factory in the region. Two decades later the city had seven textile mills and at its height was home to more than 100 cotton mills. Fall River dominated the textile manufacturing industry and at the end of the 19th century was among the nations top 25 manufacturing cities and one of the richest cities in the world. New Bedford also became one of the wealthiest cities in the world during this period with the expansion of the whaling industry. As the whaling trade slowed after the 1840s textile and apparel manufacturing became the dominant industry in New Bedford. Between 1881 and the beginning of World War I 32 cotton manufacturing employing over 30000 people were incorporated in New Bedford. Much of the economic activity in the SouthCoasts rural areas was based on agriculture and industries that supported the fishing and maritime trades including ship building and rope lumber tar and turpentine production. During the 1890s the regions coastal towns became summer resort communities for affluent people from the mid-Atlantic states. The regions maritime heritage continued with the development of recreational marinas fishing and shellfish har ...

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