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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal. (search)
ter supply. Most of the wells were badly contaminated, some being little short of open sewers. Mr. Eddy's plan consisted in abolishing the levels betwen Billerica and Middlesex Village and Woburn and Charlestown, conducting the water of the canal from Woburn by thirty-inch iron pipes to a reservoir on Mount Benedict in Somerville, thence to be distributed over Boston, and possibly Charlestown and Cambridge. The water from the Concord river was analyzed by Dr. Charles T. Jackson, Professor John W. Webster, of Harvard University, S. L. Dana, of Lowell, and A. A. Hayes, of Roxbury, and by all declared to be pure, soft, and eminently suitable for the purpose. The scheme was, however, not successful, and in 1845 Caleb Eddy resigned his position. Stock fell to $150, and in 1846 the canal was abandoned and the property was sold for $130,000, and the amount divided among the stockholders. On April 4, 1852, the last canal-boat was run on the canal by Joel Dix, of Billerica. By conveya
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
, Leslie T., 71. Vinal, Lydia (Stone), 70. Vinal, Martha Adams, 71. Vinal, Mary Lowell, 71. Vinal, Quincy Adams, 37, 70. Vinal, Robert A., 70. Vinal, Deacon, Robert, 37, 70. Violet, 88. Walters, William, 13. Waltham, Mass., 74. Wannottymies River, 31. Warren, Amos, 91. Washington (General), 58. Washington Hall, 48. Washington School, 52. Washington Street, Boston, 30. Watertown, Mass., 49, 51, 54, 73, 74, 75, 76, 80, 82, 84, 85. Watertown, Original Area of, 74. Webster, Professor John W., 9. West Cambridge, 53. West Indies, 19. West Medford, Mass., 3. Weston, Mass., 74. Weymouth, Mass., 18. Whittemore, —, 69. Willoughby, Francis, 79. Wilmington, Mass., 2, 7, 11. Wilson.——, 30. Wilson's Tavern, 2. Winchester, Mass., 3. Windmill, or Town Hill, 48. Windmill Hill, Watertown, 52. Winnepesaukee, N. H., 37. Winter Hill, Somerville, 3, 19, 88. Winthrop, Adam, 25. Winthrop, Adam, Esq., 35. Winthrop, Ann, 32. Winthrop, Anne, 25. Wi<