Reading about the canal system, a couple of the sites says that because of the way James Francis designed the canals, it protected downtown Lowell during many of the floods, including 1936.
I haven't seen it in person, but there are photos of the guard gates (aka "Francis's Folly) near the corner of Broadway and Walker that have a marker showing the height of the 1936 flood (painted on the side of the gate house, and another marker, a bit lower down, engraved in the stone wall to indicate the height of the 1852 flood.
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Date: 2009-10-26 03:09 pm (UTC)Reading about the canal system, a couple of the sites says that because of the way James Francis designed the canals, it protected downtown Lowell during many of the floods, including 1936.
I haven't seen it in person, but there are photos of the guard gates (aka "Francis's Folly) near the corner of Broadway and Walker that have a marker showing the height of the 1936 flood (painted on the side of the gate house, and another marker, a bit lower down, engraved in the stone wall to indicate the height of the 1852 flood.