LOWELL — Years before Market Street or even the city of Lowell existed, someone dug a well, by hand, in the dirt of the farmland that would eventually become the Acre neighborhood. And for an ...
"Don't waste the water!" was an oft-repeated parental admonition. Water was a scarce commodity in pioneer days. Cooking and dishwater was given to the chickens or hogs. Laundry water for laundry ...