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Illustrated History of Lowell

Creator
Charles Cowley
Date
1868
Type
book
Repository
Internet Archive (illustratedhisto01cowl); a copy is in the house library
Locator
Cited pages: scan leaves 24, 166, 201
Access
Public domain. The title page and the pages cited on this site are reproduced here from the copy in the house library; the whole volume can be read at the Internet Archive. Read the source · Original at archive.org
Rights
Public domain (published 1868).

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The title page and the 3 pages this site cites (4 page images), cut from the scanned book. Illustrated History of Lowell, Charles Cowley, 1868. Internet Archive scan illustratedhisto01cowl; copy in the house library. Public domain (published 1868). This copy is kept on this site so that it stays one click away.

  1. Illustrated History of Lowell: Title pageTitle page
  2. Illustrated History of Lowell: p. 21 (leaf 24 of the scan). Cited in note C-157.p. 21 (leaf 24 of the scan). Cited in note C-157.
  3. Illustrated History of Lowell: p. 139 (leaf 166 of the scan). Cited in note C-157.p. 139 (leaf 166 of the scan). Cited in note C-157.
  4. Illustrated History of Lowell: p. 170 (leaf 201 of the scan). Cited in note C-182.p. 170 (leaf 201 of the scan). Cited in note C-182.

Statements this record supports

  • C-157 — The hill above the house is Lynde's Hill in the histories, never 'Fairmount': Cowley (1868) says it takes its name from Colonel Joseph Lynde, who pursued the raiders of August 1695 and 'fortified it, and for some time occupied it with his command', and that 'in 1849, the reservoir on Lynde's Hill was constructed by the Locks and Canals Company, under the direction of James B. Francis'; Coburn (1920) dates the reservoir to 1848. In 1869 the city described the reservoir as 'on Lynde's Hill, so called in Tewksbury', and in 1904 the Locks and Canals pipe ran 'from their reservoir on Lynde's Hill through Fairmount, Mansur, Nesmith and East Merrimack Streets'.
  • C-182 — Bonney was elected Lowell's city solicitor on January 9, 1855, succeeding Theodore H. Sweetser, and was followed by Alpheus R. Brown, elected January 8, 1856.