Pawtucketville is a neighborhood and village within the city of Lowell, Massachusetts.[1]
The area was settled in the 1668 as Drawcott and was previously inhabited by the Pennacook tribe, and eventually “[t]he settlement that developed on the north side of the river was first called Pawtucket Village. The name Pawtucketville can be traced to the construction of the Merrimack-Middlesex Bridge at Pawtucket Falls in 1792, the first bridge that spanned the Merrimack River. On the north side of the bridge, a small village began to develop. This community was originally known as the Village at Pawtucket Falls or Pawtucket Village, and by the time of annexation in 1874, as Pawtucketville.”[2] Many notables institutions are located in the village, including Sampas Pavilion, Lowell General Hospital, Pawtucket Congregational Church (Lowell, Massachusetts), and Pawtucketville Memorial Elementary School.
Notable residents
- John Fawcett (entrepreneur)
- Daniel Gage, the “Ice King”
- Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet; founding member of the “Beat Generation”
- Jonathan Lemire, MSNBC[3]
- Barzillai Lew, African American Revolutionary War veteran
- Harry Lew, early African American basketball player
- Armand Mercier, politician
References
- ^ “Pawtucketville”. Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
- ^ Tony Sampas MLIS, M. F. A. “LibGuides: Pawktucketville: Home”. libguides.uml.edu. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ^ Perry, David (January 14, 2019). “Journalist Shares the View from His Front Row Seat to History”. University of Massachusetts Lowell.