After a long economic slump, the post-industrial New England city is encouraging development, filling vacant properties and ...

What was it like for the operatives (people who operated the machines) in Lowell’s textile mills? Every worker had a different experience. While earning cash wages for long hours, some workers found ...

A popular market inside an old Lowell mill is set to close at the end of the month because the owner is donating the building to a charter school. Mill No. 5, tucked into the upper floors of an ...

Young women from all over New England started coming to Lowell in the late 1820s to work in the textile factories. Known as “mill girls,” these women operated machines in the mills, lived in company ...

To be sure, the culture created in factory towns like Lowell, the largest and most prominent textile factory city in the region, had its appeals. Mill workers were paid in cash—about $3 a week ...