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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TJ_to-education_Lowell-MA.html
The most powerful
lever of a democracy
in raising the standard
of its citizenship
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A Tribute
from the
People of Lowell
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TI_brown-fay-and-watson-houses_Lowell-MA.html
These three Greek Revival style town houses were among several private residences built along Kirk Street in the 1840s and 1850s for a growing middle class that was being attracted to Lowell. Named from right to left for their earliest known occup…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TH_wetherbee-kelly-rose-maynard-and-ward-houses_Lowell-MA.html
These Greek Revival style town houses were among several private residences built along Kirk Street in the 1840s and 1850s for a growing middle class being attracted to Lowell. They are named from left to right for their earliest known occupants: …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TG_lowell-high-school-clock-restoration_Lowell-MA.html
"Meet Me Under The Clock"
Installed in 1937 and gifted by the
Classes of 1937, '38 & '39
the "Kirk Street Clock" has become
the symbol of fond memories and great friendships
for generations of LHS students. The clock
now runs on a GPS syst…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27SX_lowell-gas-light-building_Lowell-MA.html
Established in 1849, the Lowell Gas Light Company supplied piped coal gas that lit the city's mills, businesses, and street lamps. Designed in the more contemporary and elegant Italianate style, the building contrasted with earlier Federal and Gre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27SV_george-l-duncan-dedication-plaza-and-fountain_Lowell-MA.html
Lowell was founded upon the confluence of the Merrimack and Concord Rivers to become a nineteenth-century textile manufacturing empire. The city later faced urban decline when industry left the region. On January 3, 1989, George L. Duncan, a com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27SU_lowell-institution-for-savings-building_Lowell-MA.html
The Lowell Institution for Savings was founded in 1829, providing a savings bank for the early "mill girls." Greek Revival in style, it housed the bank until its closure in 1992. Other tenants shared the building over the years including artists, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27SQ_victorian-garden_Lowell-MA.html
Grassy park spaces have always been important in Lowell. The first mill yards were planted with grass and trees and designated "Malls."
In 1847, Lowell citizens insisted that the Northern Canal feature a tree-lined promenade; but by the 1860's ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27SP_locomotives-in-lowell_Lowell-MA.html
[The fireman] put his left foot on the lever that swings open the firebox door, to look at the searing inferno within as he...hurled shovelful after shovelful of coal...
R.M. Neal, 1950
High Green and the Bark Peelers
Lowell was a laboratory fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27SO_wentworth-building_Lowell-MA.html
Greek Revival in style with a mansard roof added after an 1865 fire, this building housed a typical main street hardware store for over 100 years and originally contained a public meeting hall upstairs. One of many locations for lectures and recit…