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Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and alongside Cambridge it is one of the two traditional seats of Middlesex County.

Lowell was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles along the rapids of the Merrimack River, about 25 miles northwest of Boston, in what had been the farming community of East Chelmsford, and it was incorporated in 1826 and became a city in 1836.

The city was named after Francis Cabot Lowell, a leading figure of the Industrial Revolution, and it became known as the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution because of its textile mills and factories.

The 2020 census recorded Lowell's population as 115,554, making it the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts at that census and the third most populous in the Boston metropolitan statistical area.

Many of Lowell's historic manufacturing sites were preserved by the National Park Service as Lowell National Historical Park, whose exhibits include weave rooms, a waterpower exhibit, and paths along 5.6 miles of largely restored canals.

The Pawtucket Falls, which provided the hydropower for Lowell's industry in the 1800s, had earlier been an important seasonal fishing site for Native people, and the Pawtucket people are named for this location, meaning 'at the falls' in Massachusett.

By the 1850s Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United States, and in 1860 there were more cotton spindles in Lowell than in all eleven states combined that would form the Confederate States of America.

During the Cambodian genocide of 1975 to 1979, Lowell took in an influx of refugees, leading to a Cambodia Town and America's second-largest Cambodian-American population, and in 2022 Lowell elected Sokhary Chau, the first Cambodian-American mayor in the United States.

Lowell is home to two institutions of higher education: the University of Massachusetts Lowell, which has three campuses in the city, and Middlesex Community College, whose two campuses are in Lowell and in the town of Bedford.

Lowell has 39 places on the National Register of Historic Places, including many buildings and structures that are part of Lowell National Historical Park, and it hosts the Lowell Folk Festival, the nation's largest free folk festival, each July.