Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Lowell, OH

Lowell is a village in Washington County, Ohio, on the Muskingum River about 7.6 miles north of Marietta, the oldest city in Ohio.

Lowell began as two rival towns: the first plat, laid out on November 8, 1837, was named Lowell in the hope it would grow into a great manufacturing city like Lowell, Massachusetts, while Buell's Lowell was laid out by Perez Barnum Buell on March 22, 1838.

Buell's Lowell won the rivalry — the older settlement became known as Upper Lowell — and Buell's Lowell was incorporated in 1850, officially shortening its name to Lowell in 1889.

Lowell grew around Lock No. 3 of the Muskingum River improvements, where an eleven-dam, twelve-lock system built between 1837 and 1841 included a mile-long canal dug near the mouth of Cats Creek to bypass the river rapids.

Lowell's dam is the highest-lift navigation dam on the Muskingum River at 14.5 feet, and at 840.5 feet it is also the longest dam in the river's lock system.

Lowell had 565 residents at the 2020 census, up slightly from 549 people in 248 households at the 2010 census, all packed into just 0.24 square miles.

The hills around Lowell were settled heavily by German immigrants — a county history recorded that more than 80 percent of the hill-district population was German by 1881.

Lock No. 3 creates Buell Island in the river at Lowell, named for Civil War general Don Carlos Buell, a Lowell native son; the island is now mostly Buell Park, used for recreation.

Lowell is home to Lowell Elementary School (kindergarten through grade 6) in the Fort Frye School District, and older students attend Fort Frye High School.

Lowell was also the hometown of WNBA championship coach Dan Hughes and baseball player and manager Lee Fohl.