Journey from a small New England farm to the factories of Lowell to learn about the life and work of a mill girl. 5.T4.4. On a map of New England, locate cities and towns that played important roles ...

Young women from all over New England started coming to Lowell in the late 1820s to work in the textile factories. Known as “mill girls,” these women operated machines in the mills, lived in company ...

Maddie Akashian was an eighth-grader playing on the Lowell High boys hockey team. She sported Lowell’s maroon colors on her sweater and was officially on the roster. But besides those ...