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City Documents of the City of Lowell, 1868–69

Creator
City of Lowell
Date
1868–69
Type
book
Repository
Internet Archive (lowellma-citydocs-1868-69); a copy is in the house library
Locator
Cited pages: scan leaf 317
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 one page this site cites (2 page images), cut from the scanned book. City Documents of the City of Lowell, 1868–69, City of Lowell. Internet Archive scan lowellma-citydocs-1868-69; copy in the house library. Public domain (published 1868). This copy is kept on this site so that it stays one click away.

  1. City Documents of the City of Lowell, 1868–69: Title pageTitle page
  2. City Documents of the City of Lowell, 1868–69: Leaf 317 of the scan. Cited in note C-157.Leaf 317 of the scan. Cited in note C-157.

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'.