History
Fall River use to be the leading city in the United States in the 19th century with textile manufacturing While the textile industry has moved on its impacted the culture
and landscape that remains in the city. Fall River was also a huge iron work industry along with cloth
printing. Fall River was once called the “Cotton Boomtown” during the civil was the town profited very
well and even surpassed Lowell, Mass and become the leading industry in Massachusetts.
and landscape that remains in the city. Fall River was also a huge iron work industry along with cloth
printing. Fall River was once called the “Cotton Boomtown” during the civil was the town profited very
well and even surpassed Lowell, Mass and become the leading industry in Massachusetts.
Portuguese culture migration to Fall RiverThe Portuguese culture came along Fall River in the late 1800’s, many of them working in the New Bedford
whaling industry, others finding jobs in the cotton mill industry. Most Portuguese culture started swarming in around the late 1960’s and early 1970’s changing Fall River has no immigrants group has never done before in Fall River. The key part of the Portuguese people being able to come to Fall River |