
The industrial and transportation hub of Lowell serves as the focal point for this mid-1930s survey, where the Merrimack River powers a dense urban landscape connected by a complex web of iron. The map documents the region's transition from the river-driven mills of Middlesex Village to the agricultural and residential outskirts of Chelmsford and Billerica. A dense network of rail lines, including the Boston and Maine R.R. Lowell Br. and the Stony Brook Railroad, illustrates how vital these corridors were to the movement of goods and people across the New Hampshire Massachusetts state line.
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1886 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1893 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1918 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1921 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1931 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1935 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1941 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1943 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1946 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1950 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1966 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1969 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1984 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1987 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

1988 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA
2012 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA
2015 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA
2018 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA
2021 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA

2024 Lowell
Middlesex County, MA