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Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex Canal. (search)
-seven feet to the level of the navigable water of the Merrimac at Concord. Short side canals with locks were subsequently built at the jupurpose of ‘opening a canal from the waters of the Merrimac, by Concord River or in some other way, through the waters of Mystic River to thehe value of $30,000 over the value of the canal; also to render Concord River boatable as far as Sudbury Causeway, through Billerica, Carlisl most eligible route between Medford River, Chelmsford, and the Concord River. Here the committee were met by an almost insurmountable diffind found an easy and very regular ascent until they reached the Concord River, a distance traveled, as the surveyor says, ‘From Medford Bridgmiles, and the ascent he found to be, from Medford River to the Concord River, sixty-eight and one-half feet.’ The actual elevation, when aftted to carry on the work, to commence at Billerica Mills on the Concord River, and first complete the level to the Merrimac at North Chelmsfo<
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, The Prospect Hill Park Celebration. (search)
r grandly we might have planned, however nobly we might have wrought, it would not have been overdone, for, to do, more than justice to so altogether worthy a theme—that were an impossibility. It has been aptly said, ‘Prospect Hill stands upon the same plane as Bunker Hill, Lexington Green, Concord Bridge, and Plymouth Rock.’ The British trooped by the foot of this hill on that memorable night when Paul Revere's warning; notes rang all along the way from Charlestown to Lexington and Concord. Less than twenty-four hours afterward, its base was again skirted by the redcoats, as they beat their hasty retreat towards Charlestown, and it was here, ‘From behind each fence and farmyard wall,’ that the hottest shot and swiftest-flying bullets of their whole retreat accelerated their hurrying movements. Address by Governor Bates. Governor Bates spoke as follows:— On behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I extend her greetings to her citizens in Somerville, an
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Israel Putnam and Prospect Hill. (search)
Bunker Hill. Some facts with reference to that momentous event seem to me to be necessary here, as showing more clearly in what capacity and by whose authority he led his broken army, after the engagement, to Somerville, and what was the significance of his command and work on and around its famous height. All know with what alacrity Putnam, as soon as he heard of the Battle of Lexington, left his plough in his field at Pomfret, his Connecticut home, and flew horseback to Cambridge and Concord, where, after an all night's ride of a hundred miles, he arrived the next morning, and immediately consulted with the patriot committees and authorities there. His military exploits for ten years in the French and Indian wars had given him great renown as a brave, energetic, and resolute soldier, full of resources and love of country. He had already shown that he was an ardent and active friend of the cause of the colonies, and his rank was now that of lieutenant-colonel. His coming was
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Index (search)
h47 College Hill26 Committee on Historic Sites, Somerville Historical Society74 Committee of Safety, The89, 90, 92 Concord Bridge78 Concord Fight, The80 Concord, Mass.52, 88 Concord, N. H.50, 51, 52, 56, 57 Concord R. R.51 Concord River52, 53, 54, 55 Condit, Sears42 Coney, John27 Connecticut Flag, The80, 87, 93 ConnecConcord R. R.51 Concord River52, 53, 54, 55 Condit, Sears42 Coney, John27 Connecticut Flag, The80, 87, 93 Connecticut River49, 52 Connecticut, 3rd Regiment of86 Continental Army, The86 Continental Congress, The95 Coos Falls50 Corpus Christi, Cambridge, England16 Council of War, The89, 90 Court Manual, The15 Craigie, Andrew53, 56 ‘Cranberry Pickers, The’6 Cromwell's Falls50 Cross Street, Somerville44, 45 Cross Street Universalist Concord River52, 53, 54, 55 Condit, Sears42 Coney, John27 Connecticut Flag, The80, 87, 93 Connecticut River49, 52 Connecticut, 3rd Regiment of86 Continental Army, The86 Continental Congress, The95 Coos Falls50 Corpus Christi, Cambridge, England16 Council of War, The89, 90 Court Manual, The15 Craigie, Andrew53, 56 ‘Cranberry Pickers, The’6 Cromwell's Falls50 Cross Street, Somerville44, 45 Cross Street Universalist Church26, 27 Cutler, John, Jr.35 Cutler, Nathaniel60 Cutler, Timothy40 Cutter, Edward43 Cutter, Fitch44 ‘Dame Schools,’ Charlestown60 Danforth, Samuel34 Dartmouth Street, Somerville44 D. A. R., National Society of7 D. R., Prospect Hill Chapter76 Dauphiny, France11, 12 Dawson, H. B., Historian97 De Mallet, Antoine1