Boott Cotton Mills Museum


  • Address: 115 John St
  • Vicinity: Bridge St and the Merrimack River
  • Type: Heritage Museum
  • Travel Genus: Sight , Visit
  • Sight Category: Museums

Boott Cotton Mills is an American National Park museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, that preserves the stories of the workers, engineers, inventors, and investors who made Lowell the first successful planned industrial city in the United States. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Nathan Appleton Developer
1821/00/00
1821/12/00 Kirk Boott Architect In the autumn of 1821 Kirk Boott, acting as chief agent for the Appleton group, quietly buys up farm land on both sides of the river and buys a majority of stock in the canal company. Land prices will rise from $20 to $4,300 per acre by December.
1830/00/00

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Particulars for Boott Cotton Mills Museum:
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Historic Use Canal Related
Area of Significance Engineering
Owner Federal
Museum Type Heritage Museum
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Industry
Historic Use Manufacturing facility
Level of Significance National
Owner Private
Owner State
Historic Use Water Works
Historic Use Water-related




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