Lowell National Historical Park

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Boott Cotton Mills Museum

Address: 115 John Street, Lowell, MA 01852

Lowell was America's first great planned industrial city: the Merrimack River's power turned whole mills of looms tended by the famous 'mill girls,' whose boarding houses and protests shaped American labor history; immigrants from Quebec to Cambodia kept the mills humming for a century.

Ride a trolley along the canals, hear 88 looms roar in the Boott Cotton Mills, and tour a Mill Girls boarding house; young kids can earn a Junior Ranger badge. For a challenge, walk the entire canal system and work through both the mill museum and the boarding house exhibits.

Coordinates: 42.64735, -71.30694

Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center

Address: 246 Market Street, Lowell, MA 01852

Lowell was America's first great planned industrial city: the Merrimack River's power turned whole mills of looms tended by the famous 'mill girls,' whose boarding houses and protests shaped American labor history; immigrants from Quebec to Cambodia kept the mills humming for a century.

Ride a trolley along the canals, hear 88 looms roar in the Boott Cotton Mills, and tour a Mill Girls boarding house; young kids can earn a Junior Ranger badge. For a challenge, walk the entire canal system and work through both the mill museum and the boarding house exhibits.

Coordinates: 42.64454, -71.31316

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