Editing Lawrence, Massachusetts (section)

=====Yankee farmers=====
[[File:Lawrence Street Congregational Church - Lawrence, MA - DSC03581.JPG|thumb|Lawrence Street Congregational Church]]

Not all immigrants to Lawrence were foreign-born or their children. Yankee farmers, unable to compete against the cheaper farmlands of the [[Midwest]] that had been linked to the East Coast by rail, settled in corners of Lawrence. [[Congregational church|Congregationalists]] were the second Protestant denomination to begin worship in Lawrence after the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopalians]], with the formation of the [[Lawrence Street Congregational Church]] in 1847,<ref name=Quartercentennial>''Quarter-centennial history of Lawrence, Massachusetts: With portraits and biographical sketches of ex-mayors, the board of may...'' [database on-line]. [[Provo, UT]]: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Wadsworth, H. A. ''Quarter-centennial history of Lawrence, Massachusetts: With portraits and biographical sketches of ex-mayors, the board of mayor and aldermen for the present year, other leading officials, and a representation of business and professional men''. Lawrence, Mass.: H. Reed, Lawrence Eagle Steam Job Print. Office, 1878</ref>{{rp|66}} and the first in South Lawrence, with the erection in 1852 of the first South Congregational Church on South Broadway, near the corner of Andover Street.<ref name="Skulski"/>  Baptist churches included The First Baptist Church, one of the first churches in Lawrence, which was organized in the spring of 1947 and was known as Amesbury Street Baptist Church.  Second Baptist was organized on September 6, 1860; its building was dedicated in 1874.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>