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32 unusual facts about Lowell


9th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

Although recruitment at Camp English in New Haven proceeded slowly due to the lack of proper clothing and equipment, the regiment had 845 men when it left New Haven in November by rail for Camp Chase in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Alice Barrows

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles Dana Barrows and Marion Merrill, Alice graduated from Vassar College with an A.B. During 1901–03, she was employed as an English teacher at the Packer Collegiate Institute, then she taught English at the Ethical School in New York City from 1903–04.

Archbishop Iakovos of America

Ordained a priest in 1940 in Lowell, Massachusetts, he served at St. George Church, Hartford, Connecticut, while teaching and serving as assistant dean of the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Theological School, then in Pomfret, Connecticut and now in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Chaotic Wrestling

Chaotic Wrestling (CW) is an American independent wrestling promotion owned by Jamie Jamitkowski and operating throughout New England, with its home base in both Woburn, Massachusetts and Lowell, Massachusetts.

The Chaotic Wrestling Hall of Fame is an American professional wrestling hall of fame maintained by the Lowell-based promotion Chaotic Wrestling (CW).

CHRF

The station has chosen 980 AM, as there are no clear channel stations using that frequency, nor are there any close by that broadcast there currently – the closest ones are CFPL in London, Ontario; WCAP in Lowell, Massachusetts; WOFX in Troy, New York; and WTEM in Washington, D.C. In addition, the closest 980 allocation to Montreal, in Quebec City, has remained vacant since 1997, when CBV relocated to FM.

Clayton, West Virginia

The first land grant in Clayton was made in 1786 to Colonel James Graham of Lowell.

Corbett Davis

Richard Corbett "Corby" Davis (December 8, 1914 in Lowell, Indiana – May 28, 1968 in Houlton, Maine) was an American football fullback.

Edmund Leavens Chandler

After completing his education, Chandler taught school for several years and then worked as secretary for realty dealers in Lowell, Massachusetts for about five years.

Giuseppina Morlacchi

The couple settled in a country estate in Lowell, Massachusetts with an additional home Leadville, Colorado, although she continued to perform, both with her husband in western dramas, and solo.

History of the Franco-Americans

Many American textile manufactures and other industries opened up jobs for French-Canadian immigrants, such as ones in Lewiston and other bordering counties in Maine; Fall River, Holyoke and Lowell in Massachusetts; Woonsocket in Rhode Island; Manchester in New Hampshire and the bordering regions in Vermont.

Jonathan Paiement

On February 19, 2009, Paiement and four other people were seriously injured when the bus carrying the Albany River Rats home from a game in Lowell, Massachusetts struck a guard rail and rolled on its side on the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Lowell Bridge

Before the Lowell Bridge was constructed, pioneer Amos Hyland settled on the Middle Fork Willamette River in 1874, and established the town of Lowell, which he named after his birthplace of Lowell, Maine.

Lowell, North Carolina

When grading was done for the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway in 1870 and a small depot was built in the community, it was given the name "Wright's Station", because the nearest resident was William Wright.

Marcelo Claure

Later that year, he left La Paz to attend what-was-then the University of Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Margaret Nowell Graham

Margaret Nowell was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1867 to Charles Foster Nowell and Anna Marie Chase.

Markku Uusipaavalniemi

Two weeks before the start of the 2006 World Men's Curling Championship in Lowell, Massachusetts, Uusipaavalniemi suffered a wrist injury that forced him to miss the team's first three games of the competition.

Massachusetts Route 133

Route 133 begins at the junction of Route 38 and Route 110 in Lowell, where Route 110 begins a concurrency with Route 38 northbound.

Massachusetts Route 38

Route 38 is a state highway in Massachusetts, United States, running 27 miles (44 km.) from Sullivan Square in Boston north via Lowell to the state line in Dracut, where it continues as New Hampshire Route 38 in Pelham, New Hampshire.

Maudslay State Park

By 1950 the Merrimack River was for the most part devoid of marine and riverine life, due to chemical effluents from the cloth and paper mills upstream in Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Manchester, New Hampshire and Concord, New Hampshire as well as the dumping of raw sewage into the river from every community on it.

Musketaquid Mills

Musketaquid Mills is a historic mill building at 131 Davidson Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Myra Kinch

Lowell, Massachusetts Sun, Foreign Nations Who Once Sent Stars To United States Now Import And Applaud American Performers, August 15, 1932, Page 8.

Nancy Donahue

The daughter of a noted lawyer and a philanthropist mother, Donahue grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, as one of eleven children.

Pervez Taufiq

Pervez Taufiq (born November 27, 1974 in Lowell, Massachusetts), is both the vocalist and primary songwriter for the hard rock band, Living Syndication.

Short season

Teams in Short-Season A leagues are generally in small-to-medium-sized cities (Aberdeen, Maryland; Eugene, Oregon; Burlington, Vermont; State College, Pennsylvania; Lowell, Massachusetts; Spokane, Washington), although exceptions exist—one team is in Vancouver (the only Canadian team currently in the affiliated minor leagues), another is in the Seattle suburb of Everett, Washington, and two are in New York City, each affiliated with one of that city's MLB teams.

South Common Historic District

South Common Historic District is a historic district between Summer, Gorham, Thorndike, and Highland Streets in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Triple-decker

This style of housing differed greatly from the well-spaced boardinghouses of the early 19th century built in Lowell and Lawrence, Massachusetts or the cottages of Rhode Island.

Tyler Park Historic District

Tyler Park Historic District is a historic district between Princeton, Foster, and Pine Streets in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Vaucluse, South Carolina

Gregg observed 'the most indifferent overseer's house in Lowell, Massachusetts, at least such as I saw, cost more than the whole village of Vaucluse, containing upwards of 200 inhabitants including a comfortable dwelling recently built as a residence for one of its owners'.

Walter Lofthouse Dean

Walter Lofthouse Dean was born on June 4, 1854, in Lowell, Massachusetts, in Middlesex County.

Wilder Street Historic District

Wilder Street Historic District is a historic district at 284-360 Wilder Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Willie Andrews

On February 5, 2008, two days after Super Bowl XLII, Andrews was arrested in Lowell, Massachusetts and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and operating an unregistered motor vehicle.


3 O'Clock Blues

Lowell Fulson recorded "Three O'Clock Blues" during his first recording session for Oakland, California-based record producer Bob Geddins in 1946.

A Sun Came

Stevens originally recorded the bulk of the album in Holland, Michigan in 1998, with some post-editing performed at Hope College Recording Arts Center—the short track "Godzuki" was recorded by his siblings in 1981 and recorded by their stepfather Lowell Brams.

Albany River Rats

On February 19, 2009, five people were seriously injured when a bus carrying the team home from a game in Lowell struck a guard rail and rolled on its side on Interstate 90 in Becket, Massachusetts.

Barbara Berjer

Among her many soap opera credits were her roles as alcoholic actress Lynn Franklin on From These Roots (1958–1961); Claire English Lowell Cassen Shea #4 on As the World Turns (1965–1971); Barbara Norris Thorpe #2 on Guiding Light (1971–1981; she reprised the role for a few episodes in 1989 and on a recurring basis from 1995–1996); and Scottish nanny Bridget Connell on Another World (1985–1996).

Bay Roberts

Rev. R. T. Lowell, who served in the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel missionary in the period 1843-1847, was an American and a brother of the poet James Russell Lowell.

Brian Martin

Brian J. Martin, American political figure who served as Mayor and City Manager of Lowell, Massachusetts

Carol Frost

Frost was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and later graduated from the State University of Oneonta and Syracuse University after studying at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Chief Parker

On the long-running Smallville television series, the Kansas town is identified as part of the fictitious Lowell County, and law enforcement is overseen by the County Sheriff — first Ethan Miller (Mitchell Kosterman) and later Nancy Adams (Camille Mitchell).

Choke Canyon

Dr. David Lowell's (Collins) research is carried out in the canyon country of southern Utah and must be conducted at the same time Halley's Comet is passing over the earth.

Chris Lowell

After the end of Life As We Know It, Lowell was cast as Stosh "Piz" Piznarski in the third season of Veronica Mars, opposite Kristen Bell and Jason Dohring.

David J. Eicher

The asteroid, a main belt object in orbit between Mars and Jupiter, was discovered by astronomer Brian A. Skiff at Lowell Observatory’s Anderson Mesa Station in 1984 and the citation was proposed and written by astronomer David H. Levy.

Down Twisted

Down Twisted is a 1987 thriller film, directed by Albert Pyun, starring Carey Lowell, Charles Rocket, Courteney Cox, and Nicholas Guest.

Elizabeth Lowell Putnam

In 1927, sometime after her husband's death, Elizabeth Lowell Putnam established the William Lowell Putnam Intercollegiate Memorial Fund in order to begin a college-level mathematics competition.

Fire safe cigarette

In 1929, a cigarette-ignited fire in Lowell, Massachusetts, caught the attention of U.S. Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers (D-MA); she called for the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) to develop technology for "self-snubbing" cigarettes.

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

He also edited two volumes of Theodore Parker's Writings (1914), introduced Newton's Lincoln and Herndon (1913), and wrote brief biographies of Samuel Langdon (president of Harvard College), of Ellery Channing and of Mrs. Abbott-Wood of Lowell.

Harry Lew

"Our Lowell team had been getting players from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and some of the local papers put the pressure on by demanding that they give this little Negro from around the corner a chance to play.

Home After Three Months Away

Ian Hamilton, who wrote a biography on Lowell, suggests that the poem owes something to W.D. Snodgrass' poem "Heart's Needle" since "Heart's Needle," which came out prior to Life Studies, focused on Snodgrass' relationship with his child.

James Cook Ayer

His education was obtained at the public schools, where at one time he was a classmate of Gen. Butler, and subsequently at the Westford Academy, after which he was apprenticed to James C. Robbins, a druggist in Lowell.

Joe Gordon

Joseph Lowell Gordon (February 18, 1915 – April 14, 1978), nicknamed "Flash" in reference to the comic-book character Flash Gordon, was an American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians from 1938 to 1950.

Joseph Gordon

Joe Gordon (Joseph Lowell Gordon, 1915–1978), also known as "Flash" Gordon, American baseball player

Julius Converse

In 1873 Converse married 31 year old Jane Martin (born North Stratford, New Hampshire, March 24, 1842, died Lowell, Massachusetts, June 22, 1916).

Lowell Junction

Lowell Junction is a railroad junction located in Andover, Massachusetts, about one mile south of the village of Ballardvale.

Lowell Milken

In 1990, Lowell Milken founded the Milken Archive of Jewish Music, a project to preserve music of the American Jewish experience.

Lucy Larcom

Larcom's legacy is honored in Lowell, Massachusetts, where she worked as a Mill Girl at the Boott Mills, and as such, the Lucy Larcom Park was named after her to honor her works of literature that recounted her life at the mills.

M. Brendan Fleming

When the Lowell city council voted to create a park in honor of Jack Kerouac, Fleming voted against naming the park after Kerouac.

Orson Lowell

Born in Wyoming, Iowa, Lowell was the son of landscapist Milton H. Lowell.

Pantry Panic

Lantz himself has claimed to have directed this cartoon, which features animation by Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding, a story by Ben Hardaway and Lowell Elliott, and music by Darrell Calker.

Paul E. Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell

In 2009, the boxing scenes of the 2010 film The Fighter were shot here with Mark Wahlberg portraying Micky Ward, Lowell's own boxer who won a world championship, and Christian Bale portraying his brother Dicky Eklund.

POET

The company traces its history to the family farm in Wanamingo, Minnesota where the Lowell and Jeff Broins began producing ethanol in 1983.

Robert Traill Spence Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell (born in Boston, Massachusetts, 8 October 1816; died in Schenectady, New York, 12 September 1891) was a clergyman.

Rusty Yarnall

He also coached baseball, football and basketball while also teaching economics at the Lowell Textile Institute, which later became the Lowell Technological Institute.

Skippy Roberge

After high school, Roberge joined a semi-pro baseball team in the Lowell Twilight League, and the Lowell YMCA basketball team, where he played until 1938 when he tried out for the Braves, then nicknamed the Boston Bees.

The Old Glory

Lowell's idea for The Old Glory began with his attempt to adapt Herman Melville's novella Benito Cereno into an opera for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

Voice of Industry

The Lowell Female Labor Reform Association was started by Sarah Bagley and twelve other women in January 1845.

WLPR

WLPR-FM, a radio station (89.1 FM) licensed to Lowell, Indiana, United States