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Lowell National Historical Park Foundation Document (Overview Version NATIONAL PARK SERVICE • U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Foundation Document Overview Lowell National Historical Park Massachusetts © James Higgins Contact Information For more information about the Lowell National Historical Park Foundation Document, contact: [email protected] or (978) 970-5000 or write to: Superintendent, Lowell National Historical Park, 67 Kirk Street, Lowell, MA 01852 Description © James Higgins Growth and change have long dominated the American As crowded tenements took the place of Lowell’s well system of values. Industry flourished in 19th-century regulated system of boarding houses, Lowell became an America as major technological advancements in industrial city similar to others in New England. transportation, power production, and industrial manufacturing facilitated a fundamental shift from rural Competition within the textile industry increased continually farm-based communities to a modern urban-industrial throughout the 19th century. Eventually, the combination of society. Lowell, Massachusetts, 30 miles northwest a cheaper, less unionized workforce; newer, more efficient of Boston, was founded in 1822 as a seminal planned factories and machinery; cheaper real estate; and lower industrial city and became one of the most significant taxes persuaded the textile industry to move south. Eight of textile producing centers in the country. The city of Lowell Lowell’s original 10 textile firms closed their doors for good is not, as is sometimes claimed, the birthplace of the during the 1920s, and the remaining two closed in the 1950s. Industrial Revolution in America. Most of the developments The city fell into a long depression that lasted through the associated with this phenomenon in the nation’s history 1960s. Gradually, over the course of 50 years, businesses shut had their origins elsewhere. But, it was in Lowell that these down, real estate prices fell, and unemployment rose. By developments converged in a way and on a scale that made the 1970s, one could stand almost anywhere in downtown them revolutionary. Lowell and see blight and decay that had resulted from decades of deindustrialization. Lowell served as America’s model industrial city during the first half of the 19th century, offering the hope that the Established on June 5, 1978, Lowell National Historical country would profit socially as well as economically by Park represented an innovative partner-driven management adopting industrialism as a way of life. The early Lowell concept between federal, state, and local governments, system was distinguished by state-of-the-art technology, the private sector, and the local community. Through this engineers, and inventors who worked in its water approach, the park and its partners work collaboratively power system, monumental mill architecture, enormous as a vehicle for economic progress in the community and production capabilities, rational city planning, a dependence encourage creative and cooperative programs to support on cotton grown by enslaved peoples and, most of all, by the preservation and interpretation of Lowell’s historic and its much-heralded workforce of Yankee “mill girls.” As cultural resources. The park encourages visitors to explore industry grew in New England, Lowell’s factories aged and how industry has and continues to influence technology, became less competitive with newer industrial cities. Profits environment, socioeconomics, and politics in cities and fell, working conditions deteriorated, and wages were cut. economies across the world. Although the character and The “mill girls” became disillusioned with the system and physical roots of Lowell lie in the Industrial Revolution, the were replaced by a succession of immigrant groups eager to city and its people are ever evolving. Their dynamic human find work at any price. stories extend far beyond the park’s borders to illustrate industrialization and its legacies on a global scale. Park Map Lowell National Historical Park Lowell National Historical Park Canalway buildings and Riverwalk Other selected T Trolley route historic building and stop Canal building, Park dam, or lock Preservation District Park Boundary Boundary Lowell Public Art Collection site MERRIMACK RIVER LAWRENCE MILLS Maintenance NORTHERNFacility CANAL WANNALANCIT MILLS KET F TUC ALLS AW A N A L P N C E R T H R O N River Transformed PAWTUCKET Exhibit GATEHOUSE TREMONT GATEHOUSE AND POWER HOUSE Mill Girls and BOOTT MILLS T Immigrants Exhibit PAWTUCKET Mogan Cultural Center DAM Boott Cotton Mills Museum Moody Street Feeder EASTERN CANAL (underground water tunnel) and Tsongas Industrial History Center MASSACHUSETTS MILLS T Kirk Street NORTH Agents House Boarding House F Park Headquarters CANAL R COMMON Park P WESTERN CANAL A A N W MOODY STREET Kerouac C Lucy Larcom Park T FEEDER GATEHOUSE Park I U S C K G E A T T T C E A MARKET N P MILLS A A T L R K Visitor LOWER Industrial Canyon MERRIMACKCenter LOCKS FRANCIS GATE GUARD LOCKS C ON PAWTUCKET CANALHAMILTON C MILLS O T TON R E D APPL MILLSHAMILTON CANAL SWAMP R LOCKS I V E R North L P A A W A N T U C K E T C 0 0.1 Kilometer 0.2 0.3 SOUTH 0 0.1 Mile 0.2 0.3 COMMON Purpose Significance Significance statements express why Lowell National Historical Park resources and values are important enough to merit national park unit designation. Statements of significance describe why an area is important within a global, national, regional, and systemwide context. These statements are linked to the purpose of the park unit, and are supported by data, research, and consensus. Significance statements describe the distinctive nature of the park and inform management decisions, focusing efforts on preserving and protecting the most important resources and values of the park unit. • Lowell’s (economic) success was based in innovation, from manufacturing technology and processes, to new business models, to city planning designed to benefit both industry and the worker. Unique industrial concepts were implemented and demonstrated at a massive scale at the Lowell mills, which served as a model for textile LOWEll NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK production and industrial cities. preserves and interprets the historic • A very large proportion of original buildings, structures, structures and stories of the Industrial and urban landscapes have survived in Lowell’s park and Revolution and its legacies in Lowell, preservation district and now are recognized as important serving as a catalyst for revitalization historical artifacts. These include the entire 5.6-mile of the city’s physical and economic power canal system with its sophisticated dams, locks, environment and promoting cultural and gatehouses, 7 of the original 10 mill complexes, and heritage and community programming. significant examples of early housing types, institutions, and transportation facilities. © James Higgins Significance © James Higgins • The Lowell canal system is nationally recognized as one • The collaboration between Lowell National Historical of the most impressive civil and mechanical engineering Park and its partners has resulted in the rehabilitation achievements of the 19th century because of its grand of almost all of the 5.3 million square feet of historic scale and technological complexity, and is the site of mill space and hundreds of additional buildings in origin for the famed “Francis” turbine. The canal system, the downtown historic district. This effort continues used as both a transportation corridor and power source, to serve as a successful example of leveraging public- facilitated the growth of the industrial city. private partnerships for economic development through historic preservation. • Lowell National Historical Park preserves and interprets the stories and heritage of the people of Lowell, including • Lowell National Historical Park embraces partnerships the early female workforce (aka “mill girls”) and those who as an integral approach to accomplishing park and came from across the globe seeking opportunities. Today, community goals. Lowell National Historical Park serves Lowell’s residents continue to shape the culture of the city as a model for leveraging collaborative public-private and contribute to its revitalization. partnerships and community engagement. Fundamental Resources and Values Fundamental resources and values are those features, systems, processes, experiences, stories, scenes, sounds, smells, or other attributes determined to merit primary consideration during planning and management processes because they are essential to achieving the purpose of the park and maintaining its significance. • Water Power System / Canal System. The Lowell National Historical Park boundary includes 9.6 miles of major riverbanks and all 5.6 miles of historic canals in Lowell, all of which comprise the waterpower system that • Boott Cotton Mills Complex. This complex is harnessed waters of the Merrimack River to power the architecturally and historically the most significant city’s mills. In fact, the Merrimack River and its natural mill site in the city, and the only one with buildings attributes dictated the location of the city itself. The owned and managed by the National Park Service. water power and canal system includes the Pawtucket, The millyard was constructed and then adapted over Merrimack, Hamilton, Western, Eastern, Lowell, and a 100-year period by the Boott Cotton Mills company, Northern Canals and canal banks, as well as several one of the 10 major textile corporations in Lowell. Of associated locks, gatehouses
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