United States 1823-1836 After 1823 a factory town grew up along the banks of the Merrimack River at Pawtucket Falls in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, which by 1836 had become the mill town of Lowell. The first planned industrial city in the nation, Lowell...

Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 105,167. It is the fourth largest city in the state. It and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex...

LOWELL - Samnang Ma, one of 189 Cambodian-Americans among the 629 seniors at Lowell High School, addressed her classmates Wednesday at graduation as their president. Her class rank is 20th. "I'm going to talk about my parents being refugees," Ma, known as Sam,...

The big deal in Lowell this winter was an all-day "motivational program" given by a TV self-esteem pitchman named Tony Robbins to a crowd of some 2,700 people, each of whom paid $179 to scavenge vicariously in what Robbins calls "a warehouse full...