Lawrence (Massachusetts)
Essex County
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Lawrence is a city on the Merrimack River in Essex County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. 2010, the population was 76 377 people.
History
Lawrence was founded in 1840 and is considered the first planned industrial city in the United States. 1847 she was awarded the status as Town and 1853 as City. She was an important location for the textile industry, which produced both the American and the European market here. At the beginning of the twentieth century with almost 95,000 inhabitants, Lawrence was a leader in the manufacture of cotton and woolen textiles. Of great importance here played the operated by the water power of the Merrimack Rivers factories. The ESSEX Company under the direction of Abbot Lawrence left the river with the Great Stone Dam dam. The previously known as New City, Essex or Merimac city was named in 1853 in honor of the entrepreneur in Lawrence.
The Pemberton Mill ( Pemberton Mill ) crashed on January 10, 1860 without warning one, it is estimated that 145 workers were killed and another 166 were injured.
In the mid to the late 19th century, many people went in search of work after Lawrence. They came from almost every European nation, especially but from Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Poland and Lithuania. There were also French Canadians from the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Iceland. At that time it was Lawrence as an immigrant city, and despite his then- small footprint of only 15.5 km ² (6 mi ²) more immigrants per capita from different countries of the world than any other comparably sized city in the world.
Demography
According to the United States Census 2010 lived 76 377 inhabitants in 25,181 households, there were 17,501 families. The population consisted while 42.8 % White, 7.6 % Black and 2.5 % Asian. Here, 73.8 % had a Hispanic or Latino roots. The per capita income was 16,557 dollars.
Lawrence had its peak the population in 1920, with 94.270 inhabitants reached ( see table), then the population declined over the next 60 years. Starting in 1980, then sat back on a growth that continues today. The emigration from 1920 was mainly due to the weak economic situation of the city at that time, in 1912 it came to the so-called 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike.
Traffic
Lawrence is located off Interstate 495, the city is also crossed by the Massachusetts Route 28 from south to north. The Massachusetts Route 110 runs east to west in the northern part of Lawrence. The Massachusetts Route 114 can be achieved by the Route 28. Thus, the road network of the city and the surrounding area is well developed.
The nearest airport is very small Lawrence Municipal Airport, he will introduce used for the transport of patients, medications, and blood and organ donations. Lawrence is located approximately midway between the Manchester - Boston Regional Airport and Logan International Airport.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), composer and conductor
- Irene Daye (1918-1971), jazz singer
- Sully Erna ( born 1968 ), singer, guitarist and drummer of the band Godsmack
- Robert Goulet (1933-2007), singer and actor
- Joseph William Justice ( b. 1942 ), auxiliary bishop in San Francisco
- Thomas J. Lane (1898-1994), politician
- Robert S. Maloney (1881-1934), politician
- Robbie Merrill, bassist for the band Godsmack
- Paul Monette (1945-1995), poet
- J. Bonnie Newman ( born 1945 ), politician and university teacher
- Endicott Peabody (1920-1997), politician, Governor of Massachusetts
- Leo Penn (1920-1997), director and actor
- Joe Perry ( born 1950 ), lead guitarist of the band Aerosmith
- John K. Tarbox (1838-1887), politician
- Ernest Thayer (1863-1940), poet
- Thelma Todd (1906-1935), actress
Other personalities
- Robert Frost (1874-1963), poet, lived as a child in Lawrence
- William Shadrach Knox (1843-1914), politician, died in Lawrence
- Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855), businessman and politician, eponym of the city ( if he has this ever entered, but is uncertain)
- William A. Russell (1831-1899), politician, lived from 1852 in Lawrence
- James Michael Shannon ( born 1952 ), politician, lawyer since 1975 in Lawrence