This is the story of David Humphreys' efforts to plan and develop America's first sustained and successful woollen textile mill and village in the United States beginning in 1806. Informed by the debates over the future economic direction of the new nation, his efforts represented a coalescence of the pro‐agricultural thoughts and ideas commonly espoused by the Democratic‐Republican Party and the pro‐manufacturing positions of Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists. The Humphreysville experiment showed that America could competitively manufacture high‐quality woollen goods; factory‐based manufacturing could be undertaken in a healthy, safe, and moral community; and agricultural and industrial interests could be combined for the public welfare. Moreover, Humphreysville was intended to be a model village where economic, social, and cultural aspects of the community were just as important as the economic production of cloth. Many of the elements of the social planning found in Humphreysville were later applied in the Slater‐Rhode Island and Waltham‐Lowell systems of textile mills and settlements throughout the nineteenth century.

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诗意的社区：大卫·汉弗莱斯上校的模范工业村

这是大卫·汉弗莱斯 (David Humphreys) 从 1806 年开始努力规划和发展美国第一个持续且成功的毛纺织厂和村庄的故事。受到有关新国家未来经济方向的辩论的启发，他的努力代表了一种团结民主共和党普遍拥护的亲农业思想和观念以及亚历山大·汉密尔顿和联邦党人的亲制造业立场。汉弗莱斯维尔实验表明，美国可以有竞争力地生产高质量的羊毛制品；工厂制造可以在健康、安全和道德的社区中进行；农业和工业利益可以结合起来用于公共福利。此外，汉弗莱斯维尔旨在成为一个模范村庄，社区的经济、社会和文化方面与布料的经济生产同样重要。在汉弗莱斯维尔发现的社会规划的许多要素后来被应用于整个十九世纪斯莱特-罗德岛和沃尔瑟姆-洛厄尔的纺织厂和定居点系统。