Views of Lowell and vicinity . ^ \> * • , /• 0 ?= » ^ij ,x ^ .. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS y 111 nil 11. Iln 0 014 077 799 7 •. 7 HE CITY OF LOWELL owes its leading position among the manufacturing citiesP^~^ of New England to the enormous water power which has been developed here fromthe Merrimack, a river, by the way, which turns more wheels than any stream of itsclass in the world. The Pawtucket Falls, the source of power at this point, was afavorite fishing place for the Indians in the past, and we must go back many centuriesto find a time when the human voice was not heard in this
Views of Lowell and vicinity . ^ \> * • , /• 0 ?= » ^ij ,x ^ .. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS y 111 nil 11. Iln 0 014 077 799 7 •. 7 HE CITY OF LOWELL owes its leading position among the manufacturing citiesP^~^ of New England to the enormous water power which has been developed here fromthe Merrimack, a river, by the way, which turns more wheels than any stream of itsclass in the world. The Pawtucket Falls, the source of power at this point, was afavorite fishing place for the Indians in the past, and we must go back many centuriesto find a time when the human voice was not heard in this town was established in 1826, and the name Lowell given in honor of a gentle--f^ man in Newburvport who introduced cotton manufxcture into the United States. The population ot the City now exceeds 100,000, a very large percentage of whom are employed in the several hundred factory buildings within the limits of the municipality. The chief industry is the manufacture of cotton goods, but there is also an enormous production of woolens, carpetings, hosiery, patent medicines, etc. LOWELL has many fine public buildings,viewsoflowellvic01lowel
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