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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford . (search)
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The highway or Canal through Labor in Vain point. by John H. Hooper.
The first great highway connecting the settlement at Mistick with the other settlements on Massachusetts bay was the Mistick river.
After the building of Mistick bridge, no other bridge spanned its waters so as to interfere with its free navigation until the building of Malden bridge, which was opened to public travel Sept. 29, 1787. Governor Cradock's interests in trading and fishing, and, after his death and the sale of his estate, the growing commerce of the town, required many boats or lighters on the river, and the management of these boats or lighters gave employment to a hardy class of men called boatmen or lightermen.
The navigation of the Mistick river with this class of vessels was no easy task.
With sails, oars, poles, and the towline, assisted by the incoming and outgoing tide, did those hardworking men pursue their arduous employment.
The tortuous channel of the river winding through the marshe