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Links to articles in the Spring 2024 Newsletter
LHS supports the preservation of the Smith Baker Center
The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Statue (1905 – ?) – contributor: Walter V. Hickey
The Franco-American Male Chorus – contributor: Joe Jussaume
A Forgotten Part of Back Central – contributors: Gray Fitzsimons and Marie Frank
The Hackberry Tree, Pawtucket and Cheever Streets, Little Canada
The Keyes Building (1834 – 2016) – a textbook case of “demolition by neglect”
St. Patrick School Complex – contributor: Walter V. Hickey
DuFresne’s Supermarket – contributor: Janine Whitcomb
Matthew’s Memorial Church, later named The Spanish American Center (1902 – 1994)
Lost Lowell Photo Gallery – contributor: Kevin Harkins
The Grist Mill (1857 – 1966)
The Lowell State Armory (1889 – 1977)
LHS Blogs
Links to articles in the Winter 2024 Newsletter
- Becoming “Annie” by Walter V. Hickey
- The A. L. Brooks home on Fletcher St. – A stop on the Underground Railroad
- “Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life” reviewed by Joe Orfant
- Photograph of General Butler’s Funeral Procession – January 16, 1893
- “Steamroller on rampage” – November 4, 1926
- Mystery photo in the City Hall attic – Where was Kirk Avenue?
- A closer look at a Greek Coffee House
- LHS Blog Post – Lowell Squares in 1914 by Eileen Loucraft
- Middlesex Village after the flood – thanks to the Chelmsford Historical Society
- Hot off the press! – Read the December 14,1827 edition of the Lowell Journal
Links to articles in the Fall 2023 Newsletter
- Warren G. Harding and the Lowell Coal Crisis (external site)
- Where is this “Ghost Sign”?
- In the mail – James B. Francis documents from 1875
- Where was . . . Maiden Lane?
- Lowell history at auction
- Great photos of Lowell – Where was this saw mill?
Links to articles in the Summer 2023 Newsletter
- A 1794 map – “more of a place than represented”
- Video – Lowell streetscapes by Annie Powell, photographer (Youtube)
- The Lowell Humane Society – 150 years of service
- 50 years ago – a famous band plays in Lowell before they were famous
- LHS Blogs – List of Lowell Mayors with Burial Locations
Links to articles in the Spring 2023 Newsletter
- Merrimack Manufacturing Co. begins operations – 1823
- The Lowell Humane Society – 150 years of service
- The Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank’s “New” Building
- New acquisitions
- New England’s Greatest Air-Meet and Exposition – 1928
Links to articles in the Winter 2023 Newsletter
- Happy 150th Anniversary to the Lowell Humane Society!
- Local Scout Eagle Project re-houses and catalogs Lowell Archives
- The Golden Gloves in 1948 “Rocky Loved Lowell”
- Lowell in winters past