Tag Archives: Lowell National Historical Park

2019 Lowell National Historical Park Quarter released at historic auditorium

The new Lowell National Historical Park quarter, 46th in the series and the first design in 2019, is now in circulation. On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 the official launch ceremony took place at the historic Lowell Memorial Auditorium, built to commemorate veterans in 1922 in downtown Lowell, MA. Located 25 northwest of Boston, the Lowell […]

Lowell National Historical Park Quarter design finalized

On August 14, 2018, the U.S. Mint announced the final design for the Lowell National Historic Park. The reverse shows a female textile worker at a power loom with its prominent circular bobbin battery. A view of Lowell, including the iconic Boott Mill clock tower, is seen through the window. The inscriptions on the coin’s […]

Candidate Designs for new 2019 Lowell National Historical Park Quarter

The U.S. Mint commissioned its artists to create candidate designs for the Lowell quarter; 18 were reviewed for accuracy, edited, finalized and presented to the Mint in September 2017. The Citizen Coinage Advisory Committee selected the design featuring a female textile worker holding a threaded spindle and the Commission of Fine Arts selected the design […]

Lowell National Historical Park featured on 46th National Park Quarter

Founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles, Lowell, Massachusetts is located along the Merrimack River rapids, 25 miles northwest of Boston. The Lowell National Historical Park covers 137 acres where visitors can see the hydro dam and nearly six miles of canals that harnessed the river’s energy; the mills where cloth was produced; a boardinghouse […]