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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Medford Branch canal. (search)
he latter lock, slowly decaying for sixty years, were removed but a few years ago, when the extension of the parkway was made along the river's edge. That the branch canal was completed and in operation in 1807, is shown by Miss Wild in her excellent memorial of Benjamin Hall See register, Vol. III, p. 88. as follows: In two years (1807 to 1809) $256.98 were received for tolls. Jonathan Warner and John Jaquith were the keepers of the locks. The first dividend was declared in February, 1809—four dollars on a share of one hundred dollars. The Middlesex canal paid none till 1819 How long the branch maintained a separate corporate existence, or that it was merged with the other we may not say, but we know the time came when it shared in the decadence and final abandonment in 1852. From 1819 to 1835 were the palmy days of the canal. Those of the branch began earlier and continued longer, as the bulk of its traffic was in ship-timber. It is unlikely that it diverted