Lowell Textile Mills
Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Marker Inscription
Founded in the 1820s along the Merrimack River, Lowell was America's first large planned industrial city, powered by canals and worked by the famed 'mill girls.'
Erected by National Park Service
The Story
Lowell harnessed the Merrimack's drop through a network of power canals to run the nation's first integrated cotton mills. Its young women workers — the 'Lowell mill girls' — wrote the first chapters of American labor history.
Why it matters
Lowell is where the Industrial Revolution took root in America, transforming a farming nation into a manufacturing power.
Related events
- · Industrial Revolution
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