Massachusetts
Lowell National Historical Park
Lowell was built around water, planning and work. Walk from the falls and canals into the machinery of the city to see how an industrial system shaped daily life, redirected a river and left a landscape that still explains itself in layers.
Stories in Lowell National Historical Park
- Lowell: The City America Built on Purpose
- Pawtucket Falls: Before the Factories, There Was the Drop
- Pawtucket Canal: A Transportation Canal Becomes an Industrial Machine
- The Great Gate: Lowell's Chief of Police of Water
- Boott Cotton Mills: The Factory as a System
- The Weave Room: What Mechanization Sounded Like
- The Boardinghouse: Corporate Housing Before Silicon Valley
- The 1834 Strike: The Mill Girls Push Back
- The Lowell Offering: Workers Write Themselves into the Record
- The Acre: The Irish Build the City They Were Not Meant to Live In
- Immigrant Lowell: The Factory City Becomes an Ethnic City
- Cotton and Slavery: Lowell's Northern Prosperity Had a Southern Foundation
- Deindustrialization: When the Model City Stopped Working
- Lowell National Historical Park: The City Becomes the Museum