Lowell
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- Names
Lowell
East Chelmsford
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located at junction of Concord and Merrimack rivers; expanded with textile industry fueled by waterpower of Pawtucket Falls 1803 and with Boston and Lowell railroad 1835; incorporated as town 1826; noted as birthplace of artist James Whistler.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Born
Thomas Willoughby Nason (American, 1889-1971)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, active England and France, 1834-1903)
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