Premise: Completed in 1796, the Pawtucket Canal was originally built as a transportation canal to circumvent the Pawtucket Falls of the Merrimack River in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts. In the early 1820s it became a major component of the Lowell power canal system. with the founding of the textile industry at what became Lowell.
Hypothesis: The Pawtucket Canal leads to the Pawtucket Falls of the Merrimack River in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts.