Talk:Lowell, Massachusetts

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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 24.147.52.112 (talk) at 01:21, 19 August 2005 (→‎Africans?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

I don't know much about the African immigrant community; just goes to show you that you can't know everything about a place. I should also have mentioned the Portugeuse-American and Brazillian community, which has been growing for the past 10-15 years and was always important to the community.

The African-American community is somewhat small, but I'm sure should also be mentioned. By the way, thanks for catching the typos.

[Anonymous author of previous edits.]

Africans?

I haven't spent much time in Lowell, but I very quickly noticed that there are a lot of immigrants from Africa there. Their presence seemed to define the character of the city nearly as much as the Cambodians. I'm moving to Lowell soon and will probably work on this article over time, but if anyone is knowledgable about this community, it seems important to mention. --Brian Z 13:49, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

[24.147.228.204 (27 July 2005) and 24.147.160.15 (16 August 2005) edits by same person. Yes, I want to remain anonymous.]

I made a pretty major rewrite of the history section. Enjoy the process of revising it. Couldn't figure out how to cite offline sources; my source for the early history of the site of Lowell is Gookin.

More recent additions: I changed the listing of "Centralville" to reflect the way it is spelled by the Lowell Police Department on their website; I have seen both spellings in wide use. The only neighborhoods I mentioned that are not listed on the Lowell Police Department website are "Lower Belvidere" and Oakland. Oakland is the area around Shedd Park (particularly on the south and east sides of Shedd Park: the school used to be called the Oakland School, and the Fire Station near the park was called the Oakland Fire House, I believe (and I think both buildings probably still have the name "Oakland" on them).

I added a short description of the government of Lowell. I added the names of the current City Manager and the current representatives in the Massachusetts House and Senate, and the representative in the US House, because those names don't change too often (but added a date).

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