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Lowell Historical Society
Annual Meeting and Presentation
Saturday, June 22, 2:00 PM
The Community Room at the Pollard Memorial Library
The Smith Baker Center:
The Lowell Cathedral’s Past, Present, and Future
Richard P. Howe, Jr.
Register of Deeds of the Middlesex Northern District
The history of the First Congregational Church and the Smith Baker Center
Dennis McCarthy
Lowell Architect
The architectural significance of the building
Paul Ratha Yem
Lowell City Councilor, District 7
The current status and actions by the city
Christine McCarron
Founder and Owner of The Beehive in Tyngsboro
The non-profit proposal and plans for the future
At the conclusion of the panel presentation, Dennis McCarthy will conduct a tour of
the exterior of the Smith Baker Center right across the street
https://www.lowellhistoricalsociety.org/news-events/
This is a free event open to the public
The annual meeting portion of the program will be very brief
See more about this event on the LHS Facebook page
“History is a tale . . . not of immutable forces but of human endeavors.”
Walter Isaacson in Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
"Pawtucket Dam, 1833" (Oil painting on canvas)
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library
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See the Lowell Sun article -
Scan by scan, Lowell history comes alive
The pages on this site and their contents fall into two major categories:
1.) Digitized documents
2.) Other primary and secondary source materials from a variety of collections including images, maps, and books.
Digitized documents -
For many, but not all, of the collections, there is both a webpage describing and listing the documents and an "Inventory" webpage with information/metadata (e.g., date, title, subject, names) including a link to each document. For these collections, there are links to the digitized documents and the indexes for them on the “Documents Collections List & Links” page of the site. In addition, a downloadable EXCEL spreadsheet file is available for each document collection on that page.
The originals of these document collections belong to the City of Lowell, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the Lowell Historical Society. The originals are located at Lowell City Hall and The Center for Lowell History.
These documents were digitized and are presented in the order that existed at the time of digitization. No effort was made to sort, reorder, or categorize. It is not known whether, or to what degree, any sorting, reordering or categorizing has been done over the previous decades. EXCEL spreadsheets and the Search function within the website give researchers the abilities to perform these functions as needed.
Other primary and secondary source materials –
Pages with other primary and secondary source materials, in addition to many other features can be accessed by clicking on the blue buttons on the left between “Documents Collections List & Links” and “Contact us.”
This site is a work in progress and documents and other resources are added on a regular basis.