Though her Lowell experience was only a brief few years, my 2nd great grandmother Charlotte Hicks was a prototypical Lowell Mill Girl. In 1849, at 15 years old she journeyed from Sackville, New Brunswick Canada to a boardinghouse in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was likely Charlotte traveled to Lowell with her neighbors, Cyrus and Rhoda Snell and family, along with nine other young farm women from … Continue reading Our Lowell Mill Girl