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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

LOWELL, Mass., March 29.-The strike of 16,000 cotton-mill operatives in seven of the largest mill plants here, which the Textile Council on Thursday ordered to go into effect at bell time Monday ...

These two experiences exemplify a divide that has emerged as the city finds itself at a crossroads, grappling with the question of what the former mill town should become. Signs of Lowell’s ...

The industrial city of Lowell might seem a world apart from the fireside British scenes we associate with Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” In the 19th century, in vast new brick ...

If past can serve as prologue, writes Robert Forrant, a glimpse into the mill city's abolitionist history may prove instructive.

LOWELL — A dangerous, dilapidated and once-majestic riverfront mill whose redevelopment efforts have been blocked for nearly a decade finally appears poised for a new life. With some financin… ...

A popular market inside an old mill is set to close at the end of the month because the owner is donating the building to a charter school.