The following is a timeline of the history of Lowell , Massachusetts , US.
1822
Merrimack Manufacturing Company incorporated.
Hugh Cummiskley leads 30 Irishmen up the Middlesex Canal starting in Charlestown, Mass to Pawtucket falls in Chelmsford, Ma
1824
St. Anne's Church organized.
Lowell Daily Journal and Courier begins publication.
1825 - Middlesex Mechanic Association,[ 5] Hamilton Manufacturing Company,and Mechanic Phalanx established.
1826
Town of Lowell established from Chelmsford land.
First Baptist Church and First Universalist Church organized.
Merrimack Journal newspaper in publication.[ 8]
Central Bridge opens.[ 9]
1827 - First Methodist Episcopal Church organized.
1828 - Appleton Company, Lowell Bank, and Lowell Manufacturing Company incorporated.
1829
Lowell Institution for Savings incorporated.
Lowell Fire Department established.[ 9]
1830
Lawrence Manufacturing Company, Middlesex Company, Suffolk Manufacturing Company, and Tremont Mills incorporated.
Appleton Street Church, South Congregational Church, and Worthen Street Baptist Church established.
Town Hall built.
Population: 6,474.[ 11]
1831
First Roman Catholic Church organized.
Railroad Bank incorporated.
1832 - Lowell Bleachery incorporated.
1833 - Police Court established.
1834
Women's labor strike.[ 13]
First Freewill Baptist Church organized.
Lowell Advertiser and Lowell Patriot newspapers begin publication.[ 8]
Lowell Circulating Library in business.[ 14]
James Abbott McNeill Whistler , painter born .
1835
1836
City of Lowell incorporated.
Factory Girls' Association,[ 13] Dispensary, Lowell Temperance Society, and Second Universalist Parish[ 9] established.
1838
Nashua and Lowell Railroad begins operating.
County jail built.
1839
Massachusetts Cotton Mills incorporated.[ 9]
Middlesex Horticultural Society[ 9] and Lowell Medical Association founded.
1840
1841
1842 - Charles Dickens visits Lowell.
1843 - First Wesleyan Methodist Churchand Missionary Association established.
1844 - City Library,[ 14] Lowell Female Labor Reform Association ,[ 17] and New Jerusalem Swedenborgian Church established.
1845 - Lowell Machine Shop incorporated.
1846
1847 - June: U.S. president Polk visits Lowell.
1848 - Francis floodgate and Colburn School built.
1850
Lowell Gas Light Company in business.
Salem and Lowell Railroad begins operating.
Middlesex County Law Library founded.[ 14]
Court-House built.
Population: 33,383.[ 11]
1851 - Lowell Daily Citizen newspaper begins publication.
1852 - May: Lajos Kossuth visits Lowell.
1853
Belvidere Woollen Manufacturing Company organized.
St. Patrick's Church and Merrimack Street Depot built.
1856 - Jail built.
1857 - Varnum School built.
1863 - High School Association organized.
1864 - Lowell Horse Railroad begins operating.
1865
United States Bunting Company in business.
Wamesit Power Company incorporated.
1867 - St. John's Hospital and Young Men's Christian Association established.[ 20]
1868 - Old Franklin Literary Association and Old Residents' Historical Association organized.[ 21]
1870 - Coggeshall's Circulating Library in business.[ 14]
1873 - Young Women's Home established.
1875 - Riding Park, and Club Dramatique established.
1876
Moxie beverage invented.[ 22]
Lowell Art Association founded.
1882 - Butler School built.
1883
1887 - Board of Trade established.
1889 - Opera House built.
1890 - Population: 77,696.
1891 - Lowell General Hospital founded.[ 20]
1893 - Lowell Post Office built.
1894 - Normal School and Middlesex Women's Club[ 9] founded.
1895 - Middlesex Village School built.[ 9]
1897 - Lowell Textile School opens.
1898 - Pawtucket Congregational Church built.
1900
Gaity Theatre opens.[ 25]
Population: 94,969.
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^ Catalogue of the Library of the Middlesex Mechanic Association, at Lowell, Mass. , Leonard Huntress, printer, 1840, OCLC 11765136 , OL 23535943M
^ a b "US Newspaper Directory" . Chronicling America . Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved December 30, 2014 .
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^ a b c Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 , U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
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^ a b c Mike Tigas; Sisi Wei, eds. (9 May 2013). "Lowell, Massachusetts" . Nonprofit Explorer . New York: ProPublica . Retrieved December 30, 2014 .
^ Contributions of the Old Residents' Historical Association , Lowell, Mass.: The Association, 1873, OL 14001898M
^ Andrew F. Smith (2011). "Chronology" . Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia . Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-39393-8 .
^ a b c d "Movie Theaters in Lowell, MA" . CinemaTreasures.org . Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved December 30, 2014 .
^ Lowell Historical Society (1902), By-Laws , Lowell, Mass., OL 18112818M {{citation }}
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^ Thomas, Matthew (2013). Historic Powder Houses of New England . History Press.
^ "Lowell Motor Carnival a Racing Success" . Motor Age . XVI (11): 1–15. September 9, 1909. Retrieved 30 September 2022 .
^ "To understand Market Basket feud, head to Lowell" , Boston Globe , July 31, 2014
^ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 69th Congress . Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1926. hdl :2027/nyp.33433081797379 .
^ "Tradition of City's Golden Gloves" , Lowell Sun , January 6, 2016
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^ "Ex-Lowell official pleads guilty in bribe case" , Boston Globe , August 31, 2011
^ "Wang Headquarters Auctioned for $525,000" , New York Times , February 17, 1994
^ United States Census Bureau (1984), County and City Data Book, 1983 , Statistical Abstract , Washington DC, OL 14997563M {{citation }}
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^ "Lowell Historic Board History" . City of Lowell. Retrieved July 26, 2013 .
^ a b American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Massachusetts: Lowell" . Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada . Rowman Altamira. ISBN 0759100020 .
^ a b Pluralism Project. "Lowell, Massachusetts" . Directory of Religious Centers . Harvard University. Retrieved July 26, 2013 .
^ "FAQ" . Lowell Folk Festival . Retrieved October 4, 2012 .
^ "Community Links" . City of Lowell.[dead link ]
^ "Welcome to the City of Lowell, MA" . Archived from the original on 1998-12-12 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine .
^ "Lowell manager's resignation may herald a power shift", Boston Globe , April 30, 2006
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^ "About Us" . Cultural Organization of Lowell. Retrieved October 26, 2013 .
^ "Court dance connects New England and Cambodia", Boston Globe , August 5, 2001
^ "Lowell's new city manager rolls up sleeves", Boston Globe , December 28, 2006
^ "Shree Swaminarayan Temple" . Shree Swaminarayan Sampraday . International Swaminarayan Satsang Organisation . Retrieved July 26, 2013 .
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^ "Meet the Mayors" . Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors . Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2013 .
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Published in the 19th century
Lowell Directory . Lowell, Massachusetts: Benjamin Floyd. 1832.
Lowell Directory . Lowell: Benjamin Floyd. 1835.
Benjamin Floyd (1840). Lowell Directory . Lowell.
William H. Prescott (1841). Lowell Directory . Lowell: Leonard Huntress, printer.
Charles Dickens (1842), "Lowell" , American Notes , London: Chapman and Hall
Lowell Directory ... 1844 . Lowell: Turner. 1844.
Lowell Directory . Lowell: Oliver March. 1847.
Lowell Directory . Lowell: Oliver March. 1849.
George Adams (1851). Lowell Directory . Lowell: Oliver March.
Charles Cowley (1856), Hand Book of Business in Lowell , Lowell: E.D. Green, OCLC 9488073 , OL 6905491M
Adams, Sampson & Co. (1857). Lowell Directory ... 1858 . Lowell: Joshua Merrill and B.C. Sargeant.
Jeremiah Spofford (1860), "Lowell" , Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of Massachusetts (2nd ed.), Haverhill: E.G. Frothingham
Adams, Sampson & Co. (1861). Lowell Directory . Lowell: Joshua Merrill and B.C. Sargeant.
Lowell Directory, 1866 . Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Co. 1866.
Sampson, Davenport, & Co. (1868). Lowell Directory, 1868 . Lowell: Joshua Merrill & Son. {{cite book }}
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Sampson, Davenport, & Co. (1870). Lowell Directory, 1870 . Lowell: Joshua Merrill & Son. {{cite book }}
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"Lowell Business Directory" . Merrimack River Directory . Boston: Greenough, Jones. 1872.
Sampson, Davenport, & Co. (1875). Lowell Directory, 1875-6 . Lowell: Joshua Merrill & Son. {{cite book }}
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Joseph Sabin , ed. (1878). "Lowell, Mass." . Bibliotheca Americana . Vol. 10. New York. OCLC 13972268 .{{cite book }}
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Hopkins (1879). City Atlas of Lowell, Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts .
"Lowell" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 15 (9th ed.). 1883.
"City of Lowell" , Industries of Massachusetts , New York: International Pub. Co., 1886, OCLC 19803267
Exercises of the Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative of the Incorporation of the City of Lowell , Lowell, Mass: Vox Populi Press, S.W. Huse & Co., 1886, OL 14007310M
Atlas of the City of Lowell, Massachusetts . L.J. Richards & Co. 1896 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
The Lowell Book , Boston: G.H. Ellis, 1899, OCLC 14177988 , OL 6997495M
Published in the 20th century
Atlas of the City of Lowell, Massachusetts . L.J. Richards & Co. 1906 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
"Lowell" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 76–77.
George F. Kenngott (1912), Record of a City: a Social Survey of Lowell, Massachusetts , New York: Macmillan Co., OCLC 2048985 , OL 13542090M
Frederick William Coburn (1920). History of Lowell and Its People . New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company – via HathiTrust.
Atlas of the City of Lowell, Massachusetts . L.J. Richards & Co. 1924 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Lowell", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People , American Guide Series , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, hdl :2027/mdp.39015014440781 {{citation }}
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Eno, Arthur L. Jr., ed. (1976). Cotton Was King: A History of Lowell, Massachusetts (1976 ed.). New Hampshire Publishing Company. p. 190. ISBN 0912274611 . {{cite book }}
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Lowell Cultural Resources Inventory , 1980
Lowell Neighborhoods: Historical and Architectural Survey , 1981
"Boom to Bust: Wang Bankruptcy Leaves Lowell Sagging Under the Weight of Recession", Boston Globe , August 25, 1992
George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Lowell, Massachusetts" , World Encyclopedia of Cities , vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)
Published in the 21st century
Carolyn M. Goldstein (2000). "Many Voices, True Stories, and the Experiences We Are Creating in Industrial History Museums: Reinterpreting Lowell, Massachusetts". Public Historian . 22 (3): 129–137. doi :10.2307/3379583 . JSTOR 3379583 .
"Around Boston: Lowell", New England (3rd ed.), Lonely Planet , 2002, p. 172+, OL 24765202M
Cathy Stanton (2006). The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City . University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-547-9 .
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