Editing Lowell National Historical Park (section)

==Park information==
{{Lowell trolley}}
Among the notable features of the park are:
* [[Boott Mills|Boott Cotton Mill and Museum]]
* The Francis Gate
* [[Lowell Power Canal System and Pawtucket Gatehouse|Pawtucket Dam and Gatehouse]]
* [[Wannalancit Mills|Suffolk Mill Turbine and Powerhouse]]
* Kirk Street Agents House
* Mill Girls and Immigrants Boardinghouse
* The Lowell Canal System
* Swamp Locks, Lower Locks, Guard Locks
* Merrimack River and Northern Canal Walkway
* [[Worthen House (Lowell, Massachusetts)|The Worthen House]]
* [[National Streetcar Museum]] and the associated trolley service, which runs through the park 
* Boarding House Park, which hosts the [[Lowell Folk Festival]] and the Lowell Summer Music Series.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/globelocal/2019/07/18/lowell-folk-festival-melting-pot-cultures/oXYb5VeFXW9audt0GllyrM/story.html|title=Lowell Folk Festival offers a melting pot of cultures|last1=Khan|first1=Maysoon|publisher=[[The Boston Globe]]|date=July 18, 2019|accessdate=August 29, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lowellsun.com/2021/08/01/lowell-summer-music-series-returns-in-style/|title=Lowell Summer Music Series returns in style|last1=Hanna|first1=Ed|publisher=[[The Sun (Lowell)|The Lowell Sun]]|date=August 1, 2021|accessdate=August 29, 2021}}</ref>

The park includes a visitor center, as well as many restored and unrestored sites from the 19th century. The visitor center provides a free self-guided tour of the history of Lowell, including display exhibits such as the [[patent]] model of a [[loom]] by local inventor S. Thomas.

A footpath along the [[Merrimack Canal]] from the visitor center is lined with plaques describing the importance of various existing and former sites along the canal. The [[Boott Mills]] along the Merrimack River, on the Eastern Canal, is the most fully restored manufacturing site in the district, and one of the oldest.  The Boott Mill provides a walk-through museum with living recreations of the textile manufacturing process in the 19th century. The walking tour includes a detour to a memorial to local author [[Jack Kerouac]], who described the mid-20th century declined state of Lowell in several of his books. A walkway along the river leads to several additional unrestored mill sites, providing views of restored and unrestored [[Mill race|canal raceways]] once used by the mills.  Additionally, the park includes the Patrick J Mogan Cultural Center, which focuses on the lives of Lowell's many generations of immigrants.  Other exhibits include a working [[streetcar]] line,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heritagetrolley.org/existLowell.htm |title=APTA Streetcar and Heritage Trolley Site - Lowell, Massachusetts |publisher=[[American Public Transportation Association]] and the Seashore Trolley Museum |date=February 2013 |access-date=August 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.railwaypreservation.com/vintagetrolley/lowell.htm |title=U.S. Streetcar Systems- Massachusetts Lowell |website=U.S. Streetcar Systems Website |publisher=RPR Inc. |date=November 23, 2011 |access-date=August 23, 2014}}</ref> canal boat tours exploring some of the city's [[gatehouse (waterworks)|gatehouse]]s and locks, and the River Transformed / Suffolk Mill Turbine Exhibit, which shows how water power, the [[Francis Turbine]], ran Lowell's textile factories.