16 Facts About Lowell Massachusetts

The so-called Boston Associates, including Nathan Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson of the Boston Manufacturing Company, named the new mill town after their visionary leader, Francis Cabot Lowell Massachusetts, who had died five years before its 1823 incorporation.

For comparison Lowell Massachusetts was still rated safer than Boston, Providence, RI, Springfield, Lynn, Fall River, and New Bedford, but rated more dangerous than Cambridge, Newton, Quincy, and Worcester .

Lowell Massachusetts is located at the confluence of the Merrimack and Concord rivers.

Lowell Massachusetts has eight distinct neighborhoods: the Acre, Back Central, Belvidere, Centralville, Downtown, Highlands, Pawtucketville, and South Lowell Massachusetts.

Downtown, Belvidere, Back Central, and South Lowell Massachusetts make up the 01852 ZIP Code, and are the southeastern sections of the city .

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South Lowell Massachusetts is the area south of the railroad and east of the Concord River.

Downtown Lowell Massachusetts includes the UMass Lowell Massachusetts East Campus which consists of university housing, recreation facilities, research and the university's sports arena, as well as the Middlesex Community College.

Pawtucketville is the official entrance to the Lowell Massachusetts-Dracut-Tyngsborough State Forest, the site of an historic Native American tribe, and in the age of the Industrial Revolution was a prominent source of granite used in canals and factory foundations.

Cambodian-American Population: In 2010, Lowell Massachusetts had the highest proportion of residents of Cambodian origin of any place in the United States, at 12.

Center for Lowell History [special collections and archives] is a part of the University of Massachusetts Lowell system, established in 1971 to assure the safekeeping, preservation, and availability for study and research of materials in unique subject areas, particularly those related to the Greater Lowell Area and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

In 1957, Lowell Massachusetts voters repealed a single-transferable-vote system, which had been in place since 1943.

In July 2012, Lowell Massachusetts youth led a nationally reported campaign to gain voting privileges for 17-year-olds in local elections; it would have been the first municipality to do so.

UMass Lowell is the second largest state university and fifth largest university in Massachusetts, while MCC is the second largest Associate's college in Massachusetts.

Lowell Massachusetts Public Schools is an above average, public school district located in Lowell Massachusetts, MA.

Sun, headquartered in downtown Lowell Massachusetts, is a major daily newspaper serving Greater Lowell Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.

Public transit, Lowell Massachusetts is served by the Lowell Massachusetts Regional Transit Authority, which provides fixed route bus services and paratransit services to the city and surrounding area.