Lowell is perhaps best known for its mills. Colloquially known as the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, many history books make mention of the Lowell “mill girls” who helped ...

LOWELL — When shiny new factories were being built in the mid-20th century throughout the country and the historic Lowell mills were becoming the country’s industrial past, the city’s ...

In the early 19th century, young women were drawn into factory work with the promise of opportunity - but at what cost? The Lowell Mill Girls labored in harsh conditions, worked long hours for low ...

How does this history connect to Lowell, the 19th century cotton mill city on the Merrimack River? Without cotton from the slave-holding South, simply put, there'd have been no Lowell mills.

Lowell. Skip to content Skip to site index ... LOWELL MILL STRIKE IS DECLARED OFF; All-Night Pleading of Business Men Affected 16,000 Operatives. Share full article. March 30, 1902.

LOWELL — U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan was joined by author and journalist Mattie Kahn Monday morning for a conversation about Kahn’s first book about the impact on young women and girls in American ...

BARBARA HOWARD: The “Me Too” movement is taking off, with women from many walks of life coming forward with their stories of sexual harassment in the workplace, but this is nothing new. It's been ...

A popular market inside an old Lowell mill is set to close at the end of the month because the owner is donating the building to a charter school.Mill No. 5, tucked into the upper floors of an old ...

The cotton mill itself, as known in this country, was an original idea with Mr. Lowell. In Great Britain, the weaving, spinning, and so forth were done each as a separate business.

LOWELL — Bud Caulfield, 80, and Elmer Martinez, 20, are both Lowellians. They went to the same high school, they live in the same neighborhood, and both have ideas of what Lowell should look ...