1/4 Dollar 'Washington Quarter' Lowell National Historical Park, Massachusetts

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.