University of Massachusetts Lowell, Center for Lowell History
Proprietors of Locks and Canals on Merrimack River Engineering Drawings
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Waterwheel
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.