The photos in this video were taken at the Cocheco Manufacturing Company and are credited with helping change the laws. 

The historical video was posted to the Made in Dover Facebook page as way to remember Dover's part in shaping America's child workforce from what it was over one hundred years ago.

Dover has come a long way from labor protests and lighting off barrels of gun powder.

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