University of Massachusetts Lowell, Center for Lowell History

Proprietors of Locks and Canals on Merrimack River Engineering Drawings

Waterwheel
Detail from: Waterwheel
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Proprietors of Locks and Canals provided the engineering skills, capital, and managerial knowledge to build a complex canal system. In the 1950s, the Proprietors donated much of their technical library, architectural, and engineering drawings and photographs to the University.

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