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1/4 Dollar 'Washington Quarter' Lowell National Historical Park, Massachusetts
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN GOD WE TRUST LIBERTY QUARTER DOLLAR |
| Reverse description | A mill girl is depicted operating a power loom, with the prominent circular bobbin battery of the loom visible in the foreground — an evocative reference to Lowell's industrial heritage as a center of textile manufacturing. Through the window behind the worker, a view of the Boott Mill clock tower and the Lowell cityscape is rendered in detailed relief. The design, by Joel Iskowitz and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill, captures the human dimension of the Industrial Revolution in America. The state name MASSACHUSETTS and the park name LOWELL arc across the upper and lower fields respectively, with the date 2019 and the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM completing the legend. |
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Lowell, Massachusetts was the site of one of the earliest large-scale industrial complexes in the United States, built in the 1820s by the Boston Associates using water power drawn from the Merrimack River. The workforce was famously composed largely of young women recruited from rural New England farms — the so-called "Lowell Mill Girls" — whose labor conditions eventually sparked some of the first organized labor actions in American history. The park commemorating this was established in 1978, making it one of the first urban national historical parks in the country.