expended over $300,000 in equipment and bounties.

The Lowell Horse Railroad Company and the First National Bank were
incorporated in 1864. The French-Canadians began to settle in Lowell
just after the war.

[Illustration: ST. PETER'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1860.]

In October, 1866, Dr. J.C. Ayer presented the city with the statue of
Victory which stands in Monument Square.

The Old Ladies' Home was dedicated July 10, 1867. St. John's Hospital
was completed and opened in 1868. It occupies the site of the old yellow
house built in 1770 by Timothy Brown. In November of the same year the
first meeting of the Old Residents' Historical Association of Lowell was
held at the store of Joshua Merrill; in December, the city was visited
by General Grant.

In 1869, the city authorities undertook a system of water-supply works
which was completed four years later; the Lowell Hosiery Company was
incorporated in May. The Thorndike Manufacturing Company commenced
operations in June, 1870.

The fire-alarm telegraph was introduced in 1871; in August, trains on
the Lowell and Framingham Railroad commenced running; in November, the
new iron bridge across the Merrimack was finished; during the year, the
city suffered severely from the scourge of small-pox.

The boundaries of Lowell were extended, in 1873, to include Middlesex
Village, taken from Chelmsford, and a part of Dracut and Tewksbury. A