• Boott Cotton Mills Museum with Trolley

    Lowell

    National Historical Park Massachusetts

Tour the Suffolk Mill

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Date: September 16, 2010
Contact: Phil Lupsiewicz, 978-275-1705

Lowell, MA -In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, Lowell National Historical Park will be offering a Spanish language tour of the Suffolk Mills on Saturday, September 25 at 2:30 P.M.

Luis Rodriquez, a student of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, will present a 90 minute tour of the Suffolk Mill. The free 90 minute tour will begin in the Visitor Center and proceed by trolley to the Suffolk Mills and the River Transformed Exhibit there. Visitors will learn how a water turbine was used to power the machines of the 19th century textile industry and experience the sights and sounds of the mills which once earned Lowell the title "mill city".

For further information about the tour, please contact Phil Lupsiewicz at 978-275-1705 or e-mail us. Follow us on Twitter @ Lowell_NPS. For more information about Lowell National Historical Park, visit www.nps.gov/lowe or call 978-970-5000.

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.