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Lowell Massachusetts - Boston & Maine Railroad - Steam Engine - Monochrome

Lowell is a city in Massachusetts, in the United States. With Cambridge, Lowell is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County.

 

Beginning in the early 19th century, the village grew to become a major centre of cotton textile manufacturing, with an abundance of waterpower from the Merrimack's Pawtucket Falls (32 feet [10 metres]) and the completion of the Middlesex Canal link to Boston in 1803

By 1840, the factories in Lowell employed at some estimates more than 8,000 textile workers, commonly known as mill girls or factory girls. ... The Lowell mills were the first hint of the industrial revolution to come in the United States, and with their success came two different views of the factories

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