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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about East Lowell (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for East Lowell. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for East Lowell ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

For example, a typical abbreviation for East Lowell: E. Lowell

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

East Lowell is located in Penobscot County.

To see how the shape of Maine's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Penobscot County: Aroostook, Hancock, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo & Washington.

Below are the counties that are near East Lowell. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to East Lowell:

  • Penobscot County     (The home county of East Lowell)
    • The following are listed by their distance from East Lowell, with the one closest to East Lowell listed first.
    • Burlington
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Lowell
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Lowell is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 361 people
    • Enfield
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Passadumkeag
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Olamon
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Olamon is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olamon
    • West Enfield
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • South Lincoln
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Greenfield
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Howland
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Lincoln
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Edinburg
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Edinburg is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edinburg
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 125 people
    • Greenbush
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Greenbush is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenbush
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,519 people
  • Aroostook County
  • Hancock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from East Lowell, with the one closest to East Lowell listed first.
    • Great Pond
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Great Pond is located in Hancock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Pond
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 56 people
    • Aurora
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Amherst
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  • Piscataquis County

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to East Lowell, see our County-by-County Page for East Lowell.

Cemeteries Near East Lowell ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of East Lowell.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for East Lowell - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for East Lowell covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from East Lowell, with the one closest to East Lowell listed first.

  • Lowell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Mt. Repose Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Page Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • West End Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Long Ridge Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Sunny Slope Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Transalpine Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Turner Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Ridge Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Edinburg Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Number 1 Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • West Enfield Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (67 more) ...
    • Dennis Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Welles Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Half Twp. Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that East Lowell had a population of 75 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from East Lowell, with the one closest to East Lowell listed first.

  • Lowell
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Lowell is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 361 people
  • Burlington
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Enfield
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Passadumkeag
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Olamon
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Olamon is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olamon
  • Greenfield
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • South Lincoln
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Howland
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Lincoln
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Greenbush
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Greenbush is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenbush
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,519 people
  • Cardville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Cardville is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cardville
  • Lincoln Center
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Lincoln Center is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Center
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Lee
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Chester
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Argyle
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Argyle is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around East Lowell. See our List of 1890's Communities around East Lowell.

Newspapers Published in East Lowell ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around East Lowell.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of East Lowell, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for East Lowell.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to East Lowell:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about East Lowell, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- East Lowell) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.