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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27SN_old-city-hall_Lowell-MA.html
Lowell's Greek Revival style "Town House" originally had a large meeting hall upstairs. Town meetings ended in 1836 when Lowell became a city but the meeting hall continued in public use including a speech by Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27SK_w-a-mack-building_Lowell-MA.html
Built in 1886 for Sewall G. Mack, foundry owner and former mayor of Lowell, this store was the headquarters for an extensive ironworks business. The Mack firm sold stoves, ranges and furnaces; and manufactured galvanized iron architectural ornamen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NNN_central-street_Lowell-MA.html
Central Street has long been the primary north-south axis in the city of Lowell. Originally laid out to provide transportation between East Chelmsford and Billerica, Central Street was converted to one of Lowell's two major commercial streets (alo…