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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 13: civil History. (search)
powering them to build a turnpike from Central Square to Watertown; and it was maintained by the said proprietors, until they sold their whole franchise to the Hancock Free Bridge Corporation. the Brookline Bridge had no immediate connection with either of the rival bridges, but was erected for the benefit and at the expense of persons owning real estate in its immediate vicinity. By an act passed April 25, 1850, Ibid., IX. 218. Sidney Willard, Edmund T. Hastings, Columbus Tyler, David R. Griggs, and their associates were empowered to erect a pile bridge over the Charles River between the city of Cambridge and the town of Brookline, from points at or near the old wharf or embankment, which is near where the Boston and Worcester Railroad passes under a bridge on the Western Avenue (so called) to the opposite bank of the river in Cambridge, and to receive certain rates of toll for the term of fifty years. By mutual agreement, however, and by permission of the General Court, it w