Merrimack Manufacturing Company

[1] After the death of Francis Cabot Lowell of the Boston Manufacturing Company, his associates (commonly referred to as the Boston Associates) began planning a larger operation in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts, along the Merrimack River.

Situated at the foot of the Merrimack Canal, the original mills received the full 32' drop of the river.

However, as textile production in the United States shifted away from New England, the Merrimack Manufacturing Company's fortunes reversed.

The company was able to survive the Great Depression due to military contracts and awards which revamped the surrounding economy; it was among the last of Lowell's textile giants to close.

Shortly after it ceased operations in the late 1950s, nearly the entire complex was demolished for urban renewal in 1960.