In 1604, Sieur De Monts wrote, “The Indians speak of a beautiful river far to the South, which they call Merrimac.” The common thread that runs through the history of Lowell is the Merrimac River. The river attracted European explorers and colonists in the seventeenth century, as it had attracted various Native American tribes before them. The fertile land around the river made agriculture profitable for many years, but it was the Merrimac’s potential for water power and transportation.
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