Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
1845 - LOWELL.

Inc. as a town, 1822, as a city, 1836.
Population in 1840, 20,796

Lowell, originally an Indian settlement called Wamesit, was annexed to Chelmsford in 1726. With a part of Chelmsford it was named Lowell, in 1822, in honor of the Hon. John Lowell of Roxbury; and, finally, it was made a city, in 1836.

A village of Tewkesbury, called Belvidere, has recently been annexed to Lowell.

This city owes its greatness to a few Boston merchants, who established cotton manufactories here in 1820.

It is built on the bank of the Merrimack, but the great water power is obtained by carrying a wide and deep canal around the falls of the river, which have a descent of about 32 feet at this place, into Concord River.

A large portion of this rapidly increasing city depends upon the numerous factories ; but for good order, means of education, and religion, Lowell is equal to any manufacturing place in the world.

The chief manufactures are cotton and woollen goods, but carpeting, powder, and many other things are also manufactured to an immense amount.

Distance from Concord, 14 miles; from Boston, 25.

An Elementary Geography for Massachusetts Children by William Bentley Fowle and Asa Fitz, 1845
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