Lowell National Historical Park
National Historical Park · Lowell, Massachusetts
The first large-scale planned industrial city in America, built from nothing in the 1820s where the Merrimack River drops thirty feet, and powered by five and a half miles of canals dug to turn the water into work. Its mills were staffed largely by young farm women recruited from across New England and later by successive waves of immigrants. The park preserves the mills, the canals and the boarding houses — and in the Boott Cotton Mills a weave room where eighty-eight power looms still run, which is so loud that ear plugs are handed out at the door.
246 Market Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, 01852, United States
The park, visitor centre, film and ranger programmes are FREE. The Boott Cotton Mills Museum charges a small admission. Canal boat tours and the trolley are seasonal and ticketed, roughly May - October, and boat tours sell out at weekends — book ahead. Charged parking garage beside the visitor centre. About 45 minutes from Boston by commuter rail.
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