• Boott Cotton Mills Museum with Trolley

    Lowell

    National Historical Park Massachusetts

Park Newspaper

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2012 Lowell Offering

Emily Levine/NPS

The Lowell Offering is the Park's official newspaper and visitor guide. You can find comprehensive information about the Park in each of the annual editions below.
Read the Spring 2013 Lowell Offering (PDF)
Read the 2012 Lowell Offering (PDF)

Read the 2011 Lowell Offering (PDF)
Read the 2010 Lowell Offering (PDF)
Read the 2009 Lowell Offering (PDF)

Historically the "Lowell Offering" was an arts and literature periodical published by local mill girls starting in 1840. The Park newspaper shares the same title as a tribute to its periodical predecessor.

Did You Know?

Industrial Canyon, Lowell, MA

Protests came to Lowell in the mid-1830s. Mill management...twice reduced the take-home pay of women workers. Faced with growing inventories and falling prices, owners believed the only way to sustain profits was to cut labor costs. The mill workers were not willing to accept this logic.