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Today, the Boott Mills complex is the most complete remainder of antebellum textile mills built in Lowell. The original Mill No. 6 is managed by the National Park Service unit Lowell National Historical Park and houses the Boott Cotton Mills Museum [3] and the Tsongas Industrial History Center for K-12 educational programs. [4]
The Boott Mills along the Merrimack River, on the Eastern Canal, is the most fully restored manufacturing site in the district, and one of the oldest. The Boott Mill provides a walk-through museum with living recreations of the textile manufacturing process in the 19th century.
Kirk Boott The Boott Mill complex now converted to a museum. Kirk Boott (October 20, 1790 – April 11, 1837) [1] was an American industrialist who was instrumental in the early history of Lowell, Massachusetts.
A History of Lowell. Michigan: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library. ISBN 978-1-4255-2201-8. Eno, Arthur (1976). Cotton Was King: a History of Lowell, Massachusetts. New Hampshire Publishing Society. ISBN 0912274611. Lowell Historical Society (2005). Lowell the Mill City. Portsmouth, NH: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385 ...
The National Streetcar Museum is a streetcar museum and heritage railway located in Lowell, Massachusetts.It is owned by the New England Electric Railway Historical Society, which also operates the Seashore Trolley Museum, [1] and is operated as part of the National Park Service's Lowell National Historical Park.
The Lowell Historic Preservation District is a historic district created by the legislation establishing Lowell National Historic Park. The district encompasses an area of more than 500 acres (200 ha), including virtually all of the historically significant resources associated with the industrial history of the city of Lowell, Massachusetts .
Middlesex Horticultural Society [9] and Lowell Medical Association [16] founded. 1840 Hospital Association [6] and Lowell Museum established. Lowell Offering begins publication. [7] By now, Lowell mills had recruited over 8,000 Lowell mill girls. Population: 20,796. [11] 1841 Lowell Cemetery established. Vox Populi newspaper begins publication. [4]
In 1813, businessman Francis Cabot Lowell formed a company, the Boston Manufacturing Company, and built a textile mill next to the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.. Unlike the earlier Rhode Island System, where only carding and spinning were done in a factory while the weaving was often put out to neighboring farms to be done by hand, the Waltham mill was the first integrated mill in ...