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The Scene of a Drowning in the Eastern Canal

A brick mill building and a repaired fence over a canal

It was evening on July 4, 1912, when 5-year-old Stanley Tarsa was last seen playing in the street near his home. When neighbors heard a splash in the nearby Eastern Canal, they rushed to the scene. Too late. Stanley was a typical Lowell youth of the day. His parents were immigrants, from Poland. His father was a weaver. They rented an apartment in what had once been a mill girl boardinghouse across the canal from Boott Mill. Within a few days of the accident, Locks and Canals boarded up the hole in the bridge fence. That bridge still exists. In 1912, it provided rail access to the Boott Mills coal bunker. Today, that space is the trolley barn, where Lowell National Historical Park maintains its historic trolleys and makes sure that the canal fence is in good repair.

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Lowell National Historical Park, Code: LOWE

Lowell National Historical Park, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.6464996337891, Longitude: -71.3309020996094

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07/08/1912 | July 8, 1912

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