Lowell Historical Society

04/03/2026

Happy Birthday John Sewall Fiske! 🎂

03/19/2026

Great news from our friends at the Lowell Cemetery

At the March meeting, the Lowell Cemetery Board of Trustees elected Lewis Karabatsos as President, Rosemary Noon as Vice-President, James Latham as Treasurer, and Susu Wong as Clerk. This is the first time in the history of the cemetery’s 185-year history that women will serve as officers on the Board of Directors.

12/19/2025

Over the break - check your attics and closets!
Lowell High School needs your help to add to its collection of yearbooks. In 2012, several yearbooks were digitized, providing a great resource for research and a fun time travel portal to see what high school looked like in days of yore. They can be found here: https://www.lowellhslibrary.org/yearbooks.html
As part of an ongoing partnership with the Boston Public Library and the Internet Archive, more yearbooks will be digitized - BUT we are missing many years of Spindles!
The years needed are:
1981
1963
1964
1935-1946
1927-1933
1911-1925
1907-1909
Any years prior to 1904
If you have a LHS yearbook from one of those years to donate (the books will be digitized and the hard copies will be added to the collection in Lowell High's Stamas Library for use by students and staff), please contact Christin Monaghan, Library Media Specialist at [email protected]

08/16/2025

If you saw our program at the Lowell Cemetery or if you missed it - here is another take on the story!

06/13/2025

Save the date!

06/02/2025

We share information & research with our friends at the Lowell Cemetery

04/18/2025

Lowell had a patriot before it was Lowell. And the father of a US president.

Benjamin Pierce was born in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts (now Lowell) on Christmas Day 1757 to Benjamin and Elizabeth (Merrill) Pierce. Th...

11/03/2024

Sign up info for House History Workshop! See you there!

The Lowell Historical Society welcomes you to its House History workshop on November 16th where you will learn how to uncover the mysteries of your home or property using public records and other resources. This two-hour workshop will go over what records are available, how to access them, and how t...

10/01/2024

Our friends at the Center for Lowell History!

✨ New School Year, New Look! ✨ We are excited to announce that, moving forward, this page will be run by our staff at the Center for Lowell History. This account will focus on posting fun tidbits from University and Lowell history.

To stay up to date with general UML Library updates, please visit our website (https://www.uml.edu/library/) or follow our Instagram account ()!

09/16/2024

This past weekend I attended the Lowell Cemetery walk featuring a self tour of the grounds and mausoleums. After getting my map from one of my favorite historians I headed to each station. Much of the tour had their assigned host that gave a verbal history to each families vault. You can view all my...