Lowell National Historical Park

Here's the first installment of pics from Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell is a small city northwest of Boston on the Merrimack River, which is currently well above flood stage. (These were taken before the deluge, obviously.) Lowell is one of the sites of the American Industrial Revolution and also the hometown of author Jack Kerouac. Visit the National Park Service offical site if you are interested in some more historical info.




You can see a distorted reflection of me (red shirt) in the chrome trim.






Boott Cotton Mills and one of the canals dug to control water flow.






Wooden covered walkway between mill buildings (over the RR tracks).




Canal leading to the Merrimack River.


Housing for the workers.




This one is good large size.




That's another mill in the background - I'll post pics of it later.


This is the mill clock that directed workers to and from their machines 6 times a day.




Quotes from workers' petition to bring down their workday to ten hours.











I wonder if the workers felt trapped there?