Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Cotton Production by Merrimack Mill

Title Cotton Production by Merrimack Mill
Series ID CPNEMERRIMACK
Source National Bureau of Economic Research, Davis, Lance E., Stettler, H. Louis
Release Cotton Production in New England (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Thousands of Yards
Date Range 1824-01-01 to 1860-01-01
Last Updated 2019-11-01 1:43 PM CDT
Notes Data were gathered by the authors from various textile collections deposited at various museums and libraries on the East Coast, and collected from the original business records of textile mills in New England wherever possible. Preference was given to records that were complete and continuous for long periods, and reasonably intelligible.

Reporting techniques differed greatly from mill to mill. To make the data comparable, each mill's output was allocated uniformly over the months covered by the accounting period. The monthly figures were then summed to calendar years.

More details about the data are available in the book chapter "The New England Textile Industry, 1825-60: Trends and Fluctuations".
DATE VALUE
1824-01-01 389
1825-01-01 1807
1826-01-01 1971
1827-01-01 3057
1828-01-01 3988
1829-01-01 4357
1830-01-01 5778
1831-01-01 6358
1832-01-01 6244
1833-01-01 6673
1834-01-01 6948
1835-01-01 9026
1836-01-01 9961
1837-01-01 9047
1838-01-01 9998
1839-01-01 11711
1840-01-01 9922
1841-01-01 12488
1842-01-01 12625
1843-01-01 12612
1844-01-01 13299
1845-01-01 13320
1846-01-01 13052
1847-01-01 13193
1848-01-01 14729
1849-01-01 14635
1850-01-01 17663
1851-01-01 19602
1852-01-01 19989
1853-01-01 17862
1854-01-01 17354
1855-01-01 18553
1856-01-01 19765
1857-01-01 19029
1858-01-01 19680
1859-01-01 22103
1860-01-01 22447

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