Who were the “Mill Girls”? Join a Ranger for a walk-through downtown Lowell to learn about some of the first workers in the textile factories of Lowell. Discover the choices, hardships, and ...

Kahn said the Lowell mill girls were one of the earliest instances of such a collective realization for women in the U.S., as for many of them in the mid-19th century, working at the mills would ...

LOWELL — The Mill City has served as inspiration for writers going back to Charles Dickens’ time and beyond, and now a New York Times best-selling author has set her sights on Lowell for her ...

The Industrial City of Lowell might seem a world apart from the fireside British scenes we associate with Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” In the 19th century, in vast new brick buildings along ...

Queens College History professor Joshua Freeman talked about the history of factories. He discussed industrialization in American and factories in Lowell, MA which used women workers to make textiles.

The new quarter design includes several nods to the role of cotton mills and “mill girls” in the growth of Lowell as an industrial city.

A popular market inside an old mill is set to close at the end of the month because the owner is donating the building to a charter school.

One of the first major strikes among mill girls took place in Lowell, in October, 1836. The mill owners announced a wage cut and a withdrawal of a subsidy for their room and board.

A beloved shopping destination inside a historic mill building in Lowell has announced that it will close its doors permanently.

It started like most revolutions do: with gossip. It was 1836, and thousands of mill workers in Lowell, Massachusetts—almost all of them women and girls—had gotten to talking. Their wages had ...