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Lowell National Historical Park
Volunteer
 
The Lowell Canalwaters Cleaners with Congressman Marty Meehan at a press conference announcing the Great Canal Cleanup of 2006.
With Congressman Marty Meehan are the Canalwaters Cleaners during a 2006 press conference for the Great Canal Cleanup.

Join the award winning volunteers of Lowell National Historical Park, who donated 93,500 hours in 2007, the tenth highest in the National Park Service. You will find many opportunities to your liking!
 

Have you ever wanted to work on a trolley? Are you fascinated by the music at the Lowell Folk Festival and the Lowell Summer Music Series and would like to help? Do you want to improve the community by working with us to clean up the canal system? Do you like like the idea of staffing one of the interesting old canal gatehouses that would normally be closed if not for you?

Volunteers do so many great things for the park and the community. Explore the many possibilities and learn what it is like to join the park and one of its many partners.

Two Student Conservation Association interns
Internships and Work-Study Jobs
An adventure and an opportunity
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A volunteer, Lyn Poore, throws a track switch for the trolley car.
Fresh Opportunities
Taking a new track?
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Kathi Levine pauses at the Visitor Center desk to tell her story.
What is it like to volunteer?
Find out from the volunteers themselves.
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Industrial Canyon, Lowell, MA  

Did You Know?
Protests came to Lowell in the mid-1830s. Mill management...twice reduced the take-home pay of women workers. Faced with growing inventories and falling prices, owners believed the only way to sustain profits was to cut labor costs. The mill workers were not willing to accept this logic.

Last Updated: March 13, 2008 at 17:13 EST