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Why is Lowell Called Lowell? Lowell wouldn’t be Lowell if Francis Cabot Lowell’s Boston Manufacturing Company hadn’t built its first mill along the Merrimack River at the Pawtucket Falls. It’s still strange that Lowell got the name ‘Lowell,’ though.
Jan 10, 2021 · Lowell, named after poet and abolitionist James Russell Lowell, was included due to the fact that James expressed anti-Black and white supremacist views, including looking down on freed slaves and sympathizing with Southern beliefs on slavery.
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Jun 15, 2018 · President Carter signs the creation of Lowell National Historical Park, June 1978. National Park Service. By the 1960s Lowell’s glory days were far in the past. The city was hard pressed economically, and promising young people were leaving their hometown. Those who stayed were ambivalent about their history, recalling the hard conditions ...
Jan 28, 2018 · The first construction works in East Chelmsford started in 1822, and by 1823 already the first mill was operational. In 1826 East Chelmsford was renamed Lowell in honour of Francis Cabot Lowell. By 1826 Lowell had a population of 2,500 and by 1836 already 18,000.
The Boston merchants who founded Lowell in 1821 and named it after Francis Cabot Lowell chose to locate the town along Massachusetts’s Merrimack River to take advantage of the kinetic energy offered by the Pawtucket waterfalls.
May 14, 2024 · By 1826, construction of new mills was continuing unabated as the former agricultural village grew into a town, renamed Lowell, consisting of over twenty-five hundred residents. Ten years later, Lowell became the third city incorporated in Massachusetts.
Aug 5, 2020 · We will discuss the circumstances under which the House was originally named (for the Lowell family as a whole) and the arguments for and against changing the name.
