This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1650.1.2.1.2.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi Bill. Thank you. Just an FYI is that I checked a map and Dutton St. and Cushing St. do not intersect, but they both are off of Fletcher St. a short distance apart. However, there is a chance that the path of Cushing St. was changed; it might have intersected Dutton in the early 1900's. So, the "jail" might have been on that side of Fletcher St. right where Dutton and Cushing used to intersect. I'm trying to remember what sits there right now. There are a lot of old buildings on Dutton St. to the left of Fletcher St., but a lot of old buildings have been taken down on the right of Fletcher. (Interestingly, that is where the "Registry" used to be - the far end of Dutton St.) The next time I'm out driving in Lowell, I'll check around to see if there are any "signs" as to where the Jail might have sat ! An FYI for others is that, if you take Fletcher St. to the other end, you will come to Pawtucket St., and the area where "the French-Canadians" lived. (And, I just remembered the name, "Franco-American School.") Another FYI is that Pawtucket St. is on the southern shore of the Merrimack River, and a little farther down - just past Varnum Ave. is the Pawtucket Blvd. on the northern shore of the Merrimack River. (I don't know how the "enhanced 911" system allows this.) Another FYI is that Dutton St. is where the entrance to the parking lot for the "Lowell National Historical Park" is. The (pedestrian) entrance for the "Visitors' Center" is around the corner on Market St. Another FYI is that very first Jail would not have been in the middle of the "downtown Mill section" of Lowell. It was off to the left in the neighborhood where people had homes, and the "North Common" is just up Fletcher St. from there.