Generally speaking, factories in New England in the 1800s produced "d. shoes," although of course they produced many other things, since this was during the Industrial Revolution.
Factories in New England in the 1800s produced shoes. People in New England were high skilled artisans who knew their crafts and practiced at home with their own hands on a small scale. All changed when John Adam Dagyr first opened a shoe shop like a factory in 1750, with several workers specializing in making shoes in different sizes. All this led to the rise of shoe production in Massachusetts.
