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Wamesit Canal Whipple Mill Industrial Complex

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Location
  
Lowell, Massachusetts

Architect
  
Baldwin,Loammi

NRHP Reference #
  
82001994

Area
  
2 ha

Built
  
1821

Architectural style
  
Other

Opened
  
1821

Added to NRHP
  
11 August 1982

Wamesit Canal-Whipple Mill Industrial Complex

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Lowell National Historical, DeCordova Museum and Scul, Lowell Cemetery, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Middlesex Canal

The Wamesit Canal-Whipple Mill Industrial Complex is a historic mill and canal at 576 Lawrence Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. This industrial area of Lowell, located on the Concord River, underwent a major expansion from a more modest millworks in the mid-19th century by Oliver Whipple, a manufacturer of gunpowder. Whipple undertook the construction of a canal along that river to provide power for a number of mills he erected in the area, consulting with engineer Loammi Baldwin, Jr. on the matter. The area was further developed in the second half of the 19th century by the Wamesit Power Company, which acquired most of Whipple's properties and water rights. A mill built by Whipple in the 1820s, of which portions survive, is one of the oldest surviving industrial structures in the city.

The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

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Wamesit Canal-Whipple Mill Industrial Complex Wikipedia