Flowers for Lowell, MA

Lowell was built to run on moving water — the Pawtucket Falls drop on the Merrimack fed a lattice of power canals that turned this into the first planned mill city in the country, and that layout still shapes a delivery day. Downtown wraps around the canals and the Boott Mills clocktower inside Lowell National Historical Park; Belvidere climbs the hill on the east bank with its older single-family blocks; the Acre and Lower Highlands hold the dense triple-deckers off Broadway; and Centralville and Pawtucketville face them from the north bank, tied back by the University Avenue and Bridge Street crossings. Most Lowell orders are get-well runs to Lowell General on Varnum Avenue, sympathy pieces for the Cambodian and Portuguese parishes around the Acre, and campus drops to UMass Lowell, whose East and North campuses sit on opposite riverbanks.

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