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Business

Resourceful and energetic, with confidence in their ability to succeed, some Greek immigrants chose to work for themselves. In 1874, Dimitrios Kasimatis opened the first Greek-owned business in Lowell, a fruit and confectionary store on Middlesex Street. By 1905, there were over 200 bootblacks, and ten restaurateurs, as well as coal and wood dealers, bakers, tailors, and family farmers in the nearby towns. Proprietors worked long hours and depended on their countrymen's patronage at first. However, their offerings of quality goods and services soon attracted non-Greek customers, and gradually they became an integral part of Lowell's retail business sector.

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