Historical Marker
Davis Block
Historical marker location:
104-110 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Massachusetts
( Marker is at the intersection of Merrimack Street and John Street, on the right when traveling east on Merrimack Street.)
Marker installed: 2016
ca. 1855. Downtown Lowell Historic District.
In 1837, Harvard University held a "prostitute parade" where students marched through Boston with prostitutes to protest a law that would have made it illegal to hire women for "immoral purposes."