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Center For Lowell History

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 1850 Census

The 1850 Census

The link below accesses the pages of census data from the city of Lowell excluding Ward 5 in 1850 -

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch, Massachusetts > Middlesex > Lowell > image 1 of 644; citing NARA microfilm publication M432, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

The link below accesses a filtered search of the FamilySearch database of the 1850 census using the search criteria of "Lowell, MA" and "1850" (data from Ward 5 is included) -

https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.anyPlace=Lowell%2C%20MA&q.anyPlace.exact=on&f.collectionId=1401638

The link below accesses the pages of census data from the city of Lowell's Ward 5 in 1850 -

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LNH-GKB?i=419&cc=1401638&cat=744484