History

Lowell in the Civil War – Lowell Historical Society Program March 27, 2011

  Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore, an 1861 engraving of the Baltimore riot. Lowell Historical Society Presents a Series on Lowell’s Sixth Regiment in the Civil War and Beyond  Richard P. Howe Jr., the Middlesex North Register of Deeds and a former President of the Lowell Historical Society, will present a two…

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“Meanderings” by Jim Peters

Frequent contributor Jim Peters sent the following essay: I was just thinking of some of the things we should be remembering, and they may pass us in the wind. Remember the smell and taste of Educator Cookies? I have a friend who remembers going to the area where they dumped…

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The Road to Baltimore

Shortly after 11 am on April 19, 1861 as the Lowell-based Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment marched through Baltimore on its way to reinforce the nearly undefended Washington DC, a pro-Southern mob attacked the soldiers from Lowell. Within an hour, Luther Ladd, Addison Whitney, Sumner Needham and Charles Taylor were…

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