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Lowell (City of), Middlesex County, MA
Located 23 mi NW of Boston; Middlesex County (US-T121).
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Lowell
Lowell (City of), Middlesex County, MA
Located 23 mi NW of Boston; Middlesex County (US-T121).
Settled in 1653, incorporated as a town in 1826, and as a city in 1836. Named for Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817) inventor of the power loom, who initiated cotton manufacturing in Amerrica (MA-T1/p28).
