Posts Tagged “Lowell Waterways Vitality Initiative”

$100,000 Grant to Lowell Heritage Partnership for Waterways Vitality

November 16, 2017 by PaulM Posted in Culture, Current Events, History, Lowell Leave a Comment

MAJOR GRANT & AWARD FOR WATERWAYS VITALITY PROJECT The Lowell Heritage Partnership’s Waterways Vitality Initiative surged forward this month with several milestone achievements. The initiative’s recent successes include receipt of a $100,000 grant from the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation of Boston; a MassINC Innovation Award to be presented on November…

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Lowell’s Big Plans by James Ostis

October 25, 2016 by PaulM Posted in History, Lowell 2 Comments

Lowell’s Big Plans By James Ostis Lowell was the most significant planned industrial city in the early United States. In the 1820s, a group of Boston investors set their sights on the water power potential of the Merrimack River and systematically created a new community based on maximizing the development…

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