Where the Merrimack Canal meets Market Street in downtown, a memorial to the Irish workers, who came to Lowell in the 1800s during the potato famine, and found themselves working hard and dangerously for low wages to build what is still today the longest power canal system in the world. Here, a man using leverage to set a stone into place. It looks like the laborer here is about to whack the wall, but, the pole is half broken off from the statue, from his waist down, looks like vandalism.