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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. LOW_010902_001.JPG: These canals were built here to power the textile mills
2. LOW_010902_006.JPG: The statue is Victory, celebrating the end of the Civil War
3. LOW_010902_025.JPG: The misters spray the room with steam to keep the threads moving without catching.
4. LOW_010902_029.JPG: This makes me think "prison"
5. LOW_010902_032.JPG: The ranger is showing the pattern programs. Basically, sticks with pegs would be put in the weavers to indicate what color thread to use in what sequence. Fancier weaves required longer patterns.
6. LOW_010902_042.JPG: These were the dorms where workers (mostly young women) were housed
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Wikipedia Description: Lowell National Historical Park
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Lowell National Historical Park is a National Historical Park of the United States located in Lowell, Massachusetts. Established in 1978, it is operated by the National Park Service and comprises a group of different sites in and around the city of Lowell related to the era of textile manufacturing in the city during the Industrial Revolution. It is the oldest urban national park in the nation.

History:

See the History of Lowell, Massachusetts article for a detailed history of the city

First settled by Europeans in the 17th century, East Chelmsford (later re-named Lowell in honor of the founders' deceased business partner) became an important manufacturing center along the Merrimack River in the early 1820s. It was seen as an attractive site for the construction of a planned industrial city, with the Middlesex Canal (completed in 1803) linking the Merrimack to the Charles River, which flows through Boston, and with the powerful 32' Pawtucket Falls. The already existent Pawtucket Canal, designed for transportation around the Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack, became the feeder canal for a 5.6 mile long system of power canals based around the falls. Unlike many other mill towns, however, Lowell's manufacturing facitilities were built based on a planned community design. Specifically Lowell was planned as reaction to the mill communities in Great Britain, which were perceived as cramped and inhumane. Initially the factories of Lowell were built with ample green space and accompanying clean dormitories, in a style that anticipated such later architectural trends as the City Beautiful movement in the 1890s. Lowell attracted both immigrants from abroad and migrants from within New England and Quebec (including a large proportion of young women) who lived in the dormitories and worked in the mills.

The mill industry in Lowell went into a steep decline in the middle 20th century and by ...More...
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