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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 ...
Atlas of the City of Lowell, Massachusetts. L.J. Richards & Co. 1896 – via State Library of Massachusetts. The Lowell Book, Boston: G.H. Ellis, 1899, OCLC 14177988, OL 6997495M; Published in the 20th century. Atlas of the City of Lowell, Massachusetts. L.J. Richards & Co. 1906 – via State Library of Massachusetts. "Lowell" . Encyclopædia ...
The Lowell Mills were 19th-century textile mills that operated in the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, which was named after Francis Cabot Lowell; he introduced a new manufacturing system called the "Lowell system", also known as the "Waltham-Lowell system".
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 ...
Lowell (/ ˈ l oʊ ə l /) is a city in Massachusetts, United States.Alongside Cambridge, it is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County.With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, [3] it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of the last census, and the third most populous in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. [4]
These are the National Registered Historic Places listings in Lowell, Massachusetts. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 20, 2024.
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 Merrimack Manufacturing Company is shown as dotted lines (demolished) at the Merrimack River end of the Merrimack Canal. After the death of Francis Cabot Lowell of the Boston Manufacturing Company, his associates (commonly referred to as the Boston Associates) began planning a larger operation in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts, along the Merrimack River.