The Lowell and Lawrence Railroad was a small independent railroad that was chartered in 1846 to build a rail line linking the two giant Merrimack River...
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Boston and Lowell Railroad was a railroad that operated in Massachusetts in the United States. It was one of the first railroads in North America and the...
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railroads at both ends to provide service to its two namesake cities - the Lowell and Lawrence Railroad at Tewksbury Junction, and the Essex Railroad...
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The Framingham and Lowell Railroad was a railroad in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It was incorporated in 1870 to provide a rail connection between...
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Haggetts Pond (category Buildings and structures in Andover, Massachusetts)
Hiking trails, some converted out of a former railway (the Lowell and Lawrence Railroad), encircle the pond. The Pond also gives its name to a road (Haggetts...
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Fitchburg Railroad. The Southern Division was the former Boston and Lowell Railroad. The Western Division was the original Boston and Maine Railroad. The Worcester...
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of the Merrimack River, east of the Concord River, and north of the Lowell and Lawrence railroad. Belvidere Hill Historic District runs along Fairmount...
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Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicising T. E. Lawrence...
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The Lowell and Andover Railroad was a branch line of the Boston and Maine Railroad and was organized in 1873, after the Boston and Lowell Railroad's monopoly...
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The Lowell Line is a railroad line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running north from Boston to Lowell, Massachusetts. Originally built as the New Hampshire...
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The Manchester and Lawrence Railroad was a railroad company that was chartered in New Hampshire, United States, by businessmen from Manchester, to build...
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following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Bay Colony Railroad (BCLR) Connecticut Southern Railroad (CSO) (Genesee and Wyoming) CSX...
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also used by the Lowell and Lawrence Railroad (opened 1848), Salem and Lowell Railroad (opened 1850), and Framingham and Lowell Railroad (opened 1870)....
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The Wildcat Branch is a single track railroad branch line which connects the MBTA Lowell Line in Wilmington, Massachusetts to the MBTA Haverhill Line...
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Association, and New Jerusalem Swedenborgian Church established. 1845 - Lowell Machine Shop incorporated. 1846 Lowell and Lawrence Railroad incorporated...
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Boston Brahmin (section Lowell)
Judge Augustus Lowell (1830–1900), industrialist, philanthropist Percival Lowell (1855–1916), famous astronomer Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), President...
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freight and 92 million passenger-miles. The Andover and Wilmington Railroad was incorporated March 15, 1833, to build a branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad...
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McGovern Transportation Center (redirect from Lawrence (MBTA station))
Gothic brick structure. In 1880, the Boston and Lowell Railroad extended the 1848-built Lowell and Lawrence Railroad to a new depot north of the Merrimack River...
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1880 the Vermont section was reorganized and leased by the Boston & Lowell Railroad. In 1886, the Maine and New Hampshire section was reorganized as the...
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell was born on December 13, 1856, in Boston, Massachusetts, the second son of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lowell. His mother...
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LL&H. Lowell & Suburban Street Railway incorporated 1859, sold 1900 to LL&H. Lowell Horse Railroad Company incorporated 1863, merged 1891 into Lowell & Suburban...
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Water Power Association members: Abbott Lawrence, Edmund Bartlett, Thomas Hopkinson of Lowell, John Nesmith and Daniel Saunders, had purchased control...
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married Augustus Lowell on June 1, 1854. In the 1820s, Lawrence became a prominent public figure, including as a vocal supporter of railroad construction...
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that used to be a railroad station for the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad. The trail then reaches a parking area along Railroad Street. At about the...
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Southern Railroad (PAS) (operated by Pan Am Railways) St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad (SLR) (Genesee and Wyoming) Amtrak (AMTK) Conway Scenic Railroad (CSRX)...
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city the port of entry for both Lawrence, and Lowell which caused him to lobby furiously for the cause. The "Essex Railroad Company" was chartered by an...
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Charles Storer Storrow (category Mayors of Lawrence, Massachusetts)
of the Boston and Lowell Railroad and went on to become the railroad's business agent in 1836. In 1845 Storrow left the Boston and Lowell to become the...
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junction of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 28) with Massachusetts Route 133 (Lowell Street to the west, Haverhill Street to the east), was the village center...
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earned through these mills, they invested in railroads, especially the Boston and Lowell. These railroads helped transport the cotton from warehouses to...
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The history of Lowell, Massachusetts, is closely tied to its location along the Pawtucket Falls of the Merrimack River, from being an important fishing...
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