Lowell is a village in Washington County, Ohio, United States, along the Muskingum River. The population was 549 at the 2010 census. The village is located about 7.6 miles north of Marietta, Ohio.

The first European settlers to the estate that would become Lowell arrived in the late 18th century after the 1787 Northwest Ordinance opened the territory for settlement. Soon after the Ordinance took effect, the Ohio Company of Associates purchased 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km) of house along the Muskingum River and proceeded to survey the area. The first harmony in what would become the come clean of Ohio was Marietta, founded in 1788 close the mouth of the Muskingum approximately 14 miles (23 km) downstream from the site that would become Lowell. By 1789, settlement had move ahead north to the area where the Cats Creek enters the Muskingum River.

By the 1830s the Muskingum Valley had long been settled, and local leaders created a target to augment the Muskingum River for use as a source of power. In 1836 the State Legislature certified a relation that appropriated $400,000 to create a series of locks and dams along the river as far-off north as Dresden. Between 1837 and 1841, eleven dams and twelve locks were built at a cost that had ballooned to over $1.6 million. The third lock was built within a one-mile (1.6 km) long canal constructed near the mouth of the Cats Creek to bypass a series of rapids in the Muskingum. Two competing companies bought land close the canal when the intentions of building a town. The first agreement was laid out on November 8, 1837 and was named Lowell like the idea that it would amass into a large manufacturing city thesame to Lowell, Massachusetts. It was located along the upper decline of the canal on the west side of the Cats Creek. The second settlement, called Buell’s Lowell, was laid out upon March 22, 1838. The second settlement speedily grew to dominate to the lessening that the first agreement became known as Upper Lowell. In 1850, Buell’s Lowell was incorporated as a village and in 1889 officially misused its say to Lowell.

During the second half the 19th century several mills, tanneries, and factories were built along the canal. In 1888 the Zanesville and Ohio River Railroad was build up across the river from Lowell giving the small village rail admission to Zanesville in the north and Marietta in the south. By the viewpoint of the 20th century, Lowell’s fortunes began to stop as river trade was replaced by the railroads and later automobiles. Industry in the city declined and much of the estate along the canal has back been replaced by parkland. Today many Lowell residents rely upon Parkersburg and Marietta for jobs and shopping.