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Lowell National Historical Park
A Brief Visit

Guard Locks on the Pawtucket Canal

Guard Locks on the Pawtucket Canal is the entryway to the canal system and contains both a lock chamber for transportation, and sluice gates for water power. This site is probably best know for the "Great Gate", seen here on the left, a 21 ton wooden gate completed in 1850. This gate was used in 1852 and 1936 to save the city from devastating floods.

Pawtucket Falls
Pawtucket Canal Guard Locks
The Boott Mill
The Boardinghouse
Morning Bell
"Homage to Women"
The Bell
The Weave Room
The Pawtucket Gatehouse
Inside Pawtucket Gatehouse
St. Anne's Church
"Human Construction"
"The Worker"
Lower Locks
Market Mills
Kerouac Park
Suffolk Mill
Boott Cotton Storehouse
Mile of Mills
The Trolley
Night Falls on Boott Mills

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