Lowell Map - 1845

By 1845 the City of Lowell had grown to a population of almost 30,000. This map shows the canal system, boardinghouses, and mills that had been built by the textile corporations in only ten years time.

Tens of thousands of women and men left farms and small towns to find work in Lowell. In 1845, Boston was the only city in Massachusetts with a larger population. The men who built Lowell thought it would make them rich and it did. They also thought it would be a model industrial city, free of the problems found in English factory towns. They built schools and churches, planted flowers and trees, and arranged for lectures, concerts, and other forms of cultural enrichment.

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