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.
The textile industry was irrelevant to the Pawtucket Canal.
( z1 relevant :polarity - :ARG1 ( z2 industry :mod ( z3 textile ) ) :ARG2 ( z4 canal :name ( z5 name :op "Pawtucket" :op "Canal" ) ) )