Tag: St. Patrick’s Church – Lowell

Among the Artifacts: Merrimack Mills Employee Badges from Long Ago

.Reading time 6 minutes.

At the Lowell Historical Society, we get to see and study some really interesting artifacts, like the wooden stake from the Central Bridge fire of 1882 or the Hi Hat Guy from Lowell’s Hi-Hat Rollaway, or even the Box of Cinders from the Pollard’s Department Store fire of 1926.  A lot of these, we inherited from long […]

Read More

The Grand Fires of 1904 – St. Patrick’s Catholic Church; Lowell, Massachusetts

.Reading time 16 minutes.

Note to readers:  The St. Patrick’s Church fire of 1904 occurred just one day before the Fellows Block fire covered in last week’s post.  This post marks the third installment of the Grand Fires of 1904 series. On Monday, January 11, 1904, Sister Josephine, a teacher at Notre Dame Academy in Lowell, Massachusetts, awoke, rose from […]

Read More