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The Town & the City: Lowell before and after The Civil War

Originally created to be a digital archive for Lowell documents from 1826 to 1861, this website has grown to cover many periods and events in Lowell's history.

Lowell in the 1840 Census

The 1840 Census

This link accesses the 195 pages of census data from the city of Lowell in 1840 -

"United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch, Massachusetts > Middlesex > Lowell > image 1 of 195; citing NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

The link below accesses a filtered search of the FamilySearch database of the 1840 census using the search criteria of "Lowell, MA" and "1840" -

https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.anyPlace=Lowell%2C%20MA&q.anyPlace.exact=on&f.collectionId=1786457