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Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex Canal. (search)
r the capitals of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, covering a distance of about eighty-five miles. The Middlesex Canal, twenty-seven miles long, from Boston to the Merrimac River at what is now known as Middlesex Village, about two miles above Lowell, was the first constructed. The work on this was commenced in 1794, and completed and opened for public use in 1803. Following the construction of the Middlesex Canal came the requisite work to render the Merrimac River navigable; from the heaas a town of only about 20,000. Neither Lowell nor Manchester had been commenced, and Nashua was a small place without manufacturing, and Concord was a country village. The Merrimac Canals were blotted out by the railroad. The opening of the Lowell road in 1835, to Nashua in 1838, and to Concord in 1842, were successive steps of destruction to the whole system of river navigation, and culminated in the total abandonment of the canal soon after the Concord railroad was put in operation. A
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Index (search)
of66, 67, 68 Liberal Institute, Litchfield, Me.102 Lincoln, Abraham7 Lincoln Schoolhouse, Somerville27 Linn, Abigail13 Lisbon Falls, Me.102 Litchfield, Me.102 Literary Men and Women of Somerville1, 25, 66 Little Washington Village, N. C.22 Long, Joshua60 Long, Michael37 Longfellow, Professor8 Lord, Joseph60 Loring, Mrs. Ernest L.22 Louis XIV.11 Lovell's Island17, 35, 39, 40 Lowden, Constable17 Lowe, Mrs. Martha Perry22 Lowe, Mrs. Martha Perry, Works of68, 69, 70, 71 Lowell, Mass.49, 51 Lowell R. R., The43 Lower Canada49 Lucas, England19 Lynde, Elizabeth61 Lynde, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph60 Lynde, Mary61 Lynde, Nicholas60 Lyons, France11 Lyrion, Jane13 Macon, Ga.23 Maidstone, Kent, England 16 Makerwhit, Elizabeth13 Malden, Mass.15, 64, 79, 81 Mallet, Andrew, Son of Andrew14 Mallet, Elizabeth, Daughter of Andrew14, 15 Mallet, Ephraim14 Mallet, Ephraim, Son of Ephraim15 Mallet Family, Gravestones of14 Mallet, Isaac, Son of Andrew14 Mallet, Jean,