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Article: Boot and Shoe Manufacturing
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- Dictionary of American History
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BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURING
BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURING.
Boot-makers and shoemakers arrived early in the history of each of the colonies to provide the settlers with much-needed products. After acquiring leather from nearby tanneries, cobblers, who frequently worked at home, used hand tools and centuries-old techniques to cut out the various parts, to sew together the pieces to make the upper, and to attach the upper to the sole, shaping each shoe over a wooden last or form. A nascent industry developed in eastern Massachusetts by the end of the colonial era. Lynn had become a leading center after John Adam Dagyr and other immigrants introduced the most recent European hand processes, ...