Up by its bootstraps
Once a center of the nation’s shoe industry, Haverhill rebounds by building new housing to take advantage of a commuter rail link
M ore than 150 years ago, workers set down train tracks to Boston and built massive shoe and leather factories in downtown Haverhill — establishing infrastructure that helped make the city one of the shoe capitals of the world. (Full article: 1186 words)
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