Where were factories first located

Three years later, John and Arthur Shofield, who also came from England, built the first factory to manufacture woolens in Massachusetts. From these humble beginnings to the time of the Civil War there were over two million spindles in over 1200 cotton factories and 1500 woolen factories in the United States.

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