In Lowell you can visit a mill girls boarding house, an operating power loom mill, and take a trolley and canal boat ride.  As the industrial revolution reached a peak the mills in Lowell were in full production.  People worked long hard hours doing often dangerous work for little pay.  Click on the links below to learn more.

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The canal and the trolley

train near the visitor's center

Below:  Canal Boat Ride

Going through the original lock which is still human powered

Above:  The edge of the mill pond is held back by plywood!

Below:  The Boott Cotton  Mill

Below:  Mill Girls boarding house

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