Massachusetts
About this walk
Two 1890s schools on opposite banks of the Merrimack, one for teachers and one for the textile mills, grew together into a river-spanning research university.
Every campus tells one story to visitors and another to itself. This walk covers both. Five stops over 3.4 miles, about 27 minutes of driving. The story for each stop plays as you arrive, so nothing has to be looked up and nobody has to be followed.
Lowell has six MassRoam tours and no two cover the same ground. It works as well at eight in the morning as it does at dusk. Stop for coffee, pick it back up.
