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27 unusual facts about Lowell, Massachusetts


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.

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.

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.

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.


1996 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament

Future NBA players Marcus Camby (Massachusetts), Marc Jackson (Temple), and Tyson Wheeler (Rhode Island) were among those also named to the All-Championship Team.

Adams family political line

George Washington Adams (1801-1828), Massachusetts State Representative 1826.

Addington Palace

Mr Trecothick had been raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and became a merchant there; he then moved to London still trading as a merchant, and later became Lord Mayor and then an MP.

Afrocentrism

Mary Lefkowitz, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, has rejected George James's theories about Egyptian contributions to Greek civilization as being faulty scholarship.

Aldgate

In 1773 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, the first book by an African American was published in Aldgate after her owners could not find a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts.

Annite

Annite was first described in 1868 for the first noted occurrence in Cape Ann, Rockport, Essex County, Massachusetts, US.

Arthur Raymond Brooks

He graduated as valedictorian from Framingham Academy and High School in Massachusetts in 1913 and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1917.

Bear Swamp Hydroelectric Power Station

Bear Swamp Generating Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric underground power station that straddles the Deerfield River in Rowe and Florida, Massachusetts.

Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad

The city of Ames was chartered in 1864 for the railroad and was named by CR&M President John Blair for Massachusetts Congressman Oakes Ames.

Charles Ingersoll

Charles Fortescue Ingersoll (1791–1832), Massachusetts-born Canadian businessman and political figure who served in War of 1812 and represented Oxford County in Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1824 until his death from cholera

Christiana Morgan

The nude portrait statue of Morgan commissioned by Murray from Gaston Lachaise is now owned by the Governor’s Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts.

Committee of Five

On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

Cotton Tufts

Cotton Tufts (born in Medford, Massachusetts, 30 May 1734; died in Weymouth, Massachusetts, 8 December 1815) was a Massachusetts physician.

East Mountain

East Mountain, part of the southern Green Mountains located in Clarksburg, Massachusetts and traversed by the Appalachian Trail

Edward Little

Edward P. Little (1791–1875), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Ephraim Hammond House

Cedar Hill, the estate which it is a part of, has been in the hands of the Massachusetts council of the Girl Scouts of the USA since the early 20th century.

Fishbone, Wishbone, Funnybone

Fishbone, Wishbone, Funnybone is an album by Massachusetts folk musician Zoë Lewis, released in 2001.

Frederick Lucian Hosmer

Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) was an American Unitarian minister who served congregations in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and California and who wrote many significant hymns.

George Bachrach

In 1998, he again sought the Democratic nomination for the 8th District seat in the United States House of Representatives but finished third in the primary, losing to Mike Capuano, who later won the seat.

Greens/Green Party USA

The Clearinghouse has operated from various locations, including (originally) Kansas City, Missouri; Blodgett Mills, New York; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Chicago, Illinois.

Hancock

John Hancock Tower, a building in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by the insurance firm

Harold M. Westergaard

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

Haverhill Gazette

The Haverhill Gazette (est.1821) is a weekly newspaper in Massachusetts, owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. of Montgomery, Alabama.

Hoosac Range

Notable peaks include Haystack Mountain and Mount Snow in Vermont and Spruce Mountain in Massachusetts, as well as the Berkshires high point, Crum Hill, in the town of Monroe, Massachusetts.

Huntington family

Huntington Avenue, after Ralph Huntington (1784–1866), in Boston, Massachusetts

Intervale

Intervale Factory, a historic factory building in Haverhill, Massachusetts

James Hodges

James L. Hodges, (1790–1846), delegate from Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives

John Denison

John A. Denison, American Politician of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1875-1948

John Weeks

John W. Weeks (1860–1926), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and Secretary of War

Mechanics Arts High School

John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics & Science in Boston, Massachusetts, originally named "Mechanic Arts High School"

Michał Zadara

After two years of study, he took a leave of absence from Swarthmore, and studied directing at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, and then oceanography at Sea Education Association in Massachusetts.

Minear

Richard Minear, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Myah Moore

She did not place in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Susie Castillo of Massachusetts.

Navid

Naveed Nour, an international artist and photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

Richard K. Lester – Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Industrial Performance Center (IPC) and professor of nuclear science and engineering

Otis family

Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Third Mayor of Boston; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Massachusetts District Attorney; Son of Samuel Allyne Otis.

Paper cup

Dixie Cup is the brand name for a line of disposable paper cups that were first developed in the United States in 1907 by Lawrence Luellen, a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, who was concerned about germs being spread by people sharing glasses or dippers at public supplies of drinking water.

Piotr Gajewski

Upon completing his formal education, Gajewski continued refining his conducting skills at the 1983 Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts, where he was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship and where his teachers included Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Gunther Schuller, Gustav Meier and Maurice Abravanel.

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.

Sanborn House

Rev. Peter Sanborn House, Reading, MA, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Sara Moulton

She began working in restaurants immediately, first in Boston, Massachusetts, and then in New York City, taking off time only for a postgraduate apprenticeship with Master Chef Maurice Cazalis of the Henri IV Restaurant in Chartres, France, in 1979.

Telco

Telco Systems, a telecommunications systems manufacturer based in Mansfield, Massachusetts, USA

The State of Massachusetts

"The State of Massachusetts" is a song about the effects of drugs on individuals and their families by the Dropkick Murphys and was released as the first single from the album The Meanest of Times.

Thomas McGee

Thomas W. McGee (1924–2012), speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, 1790

Elections for the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd Congress were held in Massachusetts on October 4, 1790, with subsequent elections held in four districts due to a majority not being achieved on the first ballot.

Webster County, Georgia

The County is named for Daniel Webster, U.S. representative of New Hampshire and U.S. representative and U.S. senator of Massachusetts.

WGBH

WGBH-TV, a public television station based in Boston, Massachusetts

WRLM

WSNE-FM, a radio station (93.3 FM) licensed to Taunton, Massachusetts, United States, which used the call signs WRLM and WRLM-FM from 1966 until 1980

WTXX

WTXX-LP, a low-power television station (channel 34) licensed to Springfield, Massachusetts, United States