Lowell, Massachusetts

Everything Lowell is known for

8 songs mention this city 0 artists from here

Music in Lowell

Songs About Lowell

John
Wood & Wire
8%
"He's a modern-day Kerouac"
Bohemian Cowboy Blues
Jimmy LaFave
7%
"Jack kerouac took old highway 6"
The West
Olivia Ellen Lloyd
6%
"Except for bronze skinned girls and Jack Kerouac"
Stuck Between Stations
The Hold Steady
6%
"Sal Paradise was right"
We Didn’t Start the Fire
Billy Joel
6%
"Mickey Mantle, Kerouac"
Spell
Patti Smith
3%
"holy Kerouac"
Cold Dog Soup
Guy Clark
2%
"Ginsberg and Kerouac"
River Washed Hair
Zach Bryan
2%
"Shawn was drunk quotin' Kerouac"

Artists From Lowell

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Lowell

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Lowell.

Interstate 95 19 songs Massachusetts Turnpike 2 songs

History of Lowell

America's Stonehenge RoadyGoat

1907

At 103 Haverhill Road in Salem, New Hampshire, a tangle of stone walls, chambers, and a slab dubbed the 'Sacrificial Table' sprawls across about thirty acres of pine-covered hill. Boosters call it America's Stonehenge and claim a pre-Columbian European origin, but that is widely regarded as pseudoarchaeology. The site appears in print as early as the 1907 'History of Salem' as 'Jonathan Pattee's Cave,' a 19th-century farmstead. Radiocarbon charcoal shows people were on the land roughly 4,000 years ago, but archaeologists (including David Starbuck) attribute most of the visible structures to colonial-era farm use plus reconstruction by owner William Goodwin, who bought the place in 1937. The 'mystery' is real mostly because the rebuilding muddied the record. Named America's Stonehenge by the Stone family, who bought it in 1956.

15.2 mi away

Lowell National Historical Park

1823

Lowell's textile mills, powered by canal systems on the Merrimack River, launched the American Industrial Revolution in the 1820s.

Old North Bridge - Concord

1775

Site where colonial militia fired on British regulars on April 19, 1775, in what Emerson called 'the shot heard round the world.'

11.9 mi away

Lexington Battle Green

1775

Site where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired on April 19, 1775, when British regulars confronted colonial militia.

13.9 mi away

Walden Pond

1845

Henry David Thoreau lived in a small cabin at Walden Pond from 1845 to 1847, producing one of the most influential works in American literature.

13.9 mi away

Robert Frost Farm

1900

Robert Frost lived and farmed here from 1900 to 1911, writing many of his most famous poems including 'Mending Wall' and 'After Apple-Picking.'

16.1 mi away

Alan Shepard Birthplace - East Derry

1923

Alan Shepard was born in East Derry in 1923 and became the first American in space on May 5, 1961, aboard Freedom 7.

16.7 mi away

Things to Do in Lowell

historical 23.2 mi away
Fenway Park

America's oldest baseball park since 1912. The Green Monster looms over left field.
food 23.4 mi away
Union Oyster House

America's oldest continuously operating restaurant since 1826. JFK's favorite booth is marked with a plaque. Boston landmark.
historical 23.0 mi away
Salem Witch Museum

The 1692 witch trials brought to life. 20 people executed for witchcraft in this town.
food 23.3 mi away
Mike's Pastry

Boston's North End cannoli wars ground zero since 1946. The line out the door is part of the experience. Cash only.

Everything Near Lowell

175 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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