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ID: 7013975
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013975
Record Type:
administrative
Lowell (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 38 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.6333
decimal degrees
Long: 071 19 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -71.3167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at junction of Concord and Merrimack rivers; expanded with textile industry fueled by waterpower of Pawtucket Falls 1803 and with Boston and Lowell railroad 1835; incorporated as town 1826; noted as birthplace of artist James Whistler.
Names:
Lowell
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1826
East Chelmsford
(
H
,
V
)
............
from 1653 until renamed for industrialist Francis Cabot Lowell in 1826
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Massachusetts
(state) (
P
)
................
Middlesex
(county) (
P
)
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Lowell
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a farming community known as East Chelmsford in 1653
city (
C
)
............
since 1836
county seat (
C
)
............
in conjunction with Cambridge
manufacturing center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
East Chelmsford..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
7:523
Lowell..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
7:523
.................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25004697
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 523; 7:523
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25004697
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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