Americas Industrial Heritage Project was born with a Park Service recommendations to establish formally within the Department of the Interior the Heritage Preservation Commission. Such an effort is not without precedent. We have already seen what an effort like this is capable of achieving. Before the Great Depression. the city of Lowell. MA was a magnet which few tens of thousands of immigrants to work in its famous mills. However. after years of foreign competition. and numerous recessions. these mills fell into decline and the city grew depressed culturally and economically. In 1972. the Lowell City Council adopted the historical park conceptthe first time a national park was established to celebrate an industrial city.
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