Lowell was a settlement on the Huron River just downstream of where the Superior Dam is now in Superior Township. First Street (Ypsilanti) is what remains of the settlement now.

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• Lowell: The Ancient City, Ypsilanti Gleanings, April 1974.

“On the Huron river a few miles above the Peninsular Paper Mills, across on the north side of the river and a little west of where the Starkweather Grove was located, the Cornelius Cornwell family built a big dam and paper mill in 1874. Around it clustered a little settlement of homes where lived the families whose men folk worked in the mill. This mill was known as the Cornwell or the Lowell Mill. There was no community store, no blacksmith shop, no school, no church just a group of homes where lived a good sample of the melting pot of American workers.