Lowell National Historical Park and Preservation District, Cultural Resources Inventory, Inventory Forms and Research Reports, Industrial: Lowell Machine Shop Site through Massic Falls Industrial Site

摘要

The report discusses the corporate development of three major industrial enterprises as well as several smaller operations which existed in the Massic Falls section of Lowell: (1) Lowell Machine Shop (industrial machinery/locomotive engines)--1824-1932; (2) Lowell Manufacturing Co. (later Bigelow Carpet Co.) (cotton and wool products)-1828-1914; (3) Massachusetts Cotton Mills (cotton products) 1839-1928; and (4) Massic Falls Industrial Site (1864-present); (a) Iron Forges of Nathan Ames & John Fisher (1797-1836); (b) Richmond's Mills (1836-1878); (c) William Walker & Sons (1864-1889); and (d) Crossley Manufacturing Co. For each company there is a detailed historic sketch of its economic and physical plant evaluation. Inventory forms, historic drawings and plans, photographs and bibliography provide thorough descriptive information concerning structure and property use.