For several years I’ve been compiling information about all the monuments and memorials in Lowell. There are nearly 700 on my list thus far. Besides identifying them all, I am researching the person, group, or event memorialized. 

Today I begin posting these biographical sketches here, one-by-one, with a couple each week. Here’s the first:

Constantinos Aggelokos Square – Lewis and Jefferson Streets – Constantinos Aggelokos was killed in action in France on October 4, 1918, at age 32 while serving in the 23^rd Infantry Regiment of the 2^nd Division. He is buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery. He was born on February 22, 1886, in Sparta, Greece and came to the U.S. in 1905. When he enlisted in 1917, he worked at the Beaver Brook Mills in Dracut and lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Aggelokos on Lewis Street. The memorial may have been created in 1918 but it was rededicated on January 5, 1943, after the construction of the Lowell Housing Authority’s North Common Village housing project.