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Massachusetts populated places on the Merrimack River

  • Lowell, MassachusettsIn 1823, the Boston Associates named a new mill town after Francis Cabot Lowell, who had died five years prior. Nathan Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson led…
  • Newburyport, MassachusettsOn the 28th of January 1764, the General Court of Massachusetts passed an act to create a new town from part of Newbury.