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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., An eighteenth century enterprise. (search)
ty of Manchester, while $12,000 was expended at Wicassee, which work was obliterated when, some years later, the dam at Pawtucket Falls was built, and the city of Lowell sprang into being. Col. Baldwin was the first superintendent and agent of the canal, and his duties were increased by the action of the General Court, which athe result was the town, and soon the city, of Lowell. In 1831 Mr. Eddy was directed to survey a route for a branch canal from Billerica to the Hamilton Mills in Lowell, to save four miles and Pawtucket tolls. He reported the project feasible, but counselled delay. The reason is not hard to discover in the following letter to tr. Dame, assisting in the preparation for its own obsequies, not only in the delivery of the stone ties on which the rails were laid, but in the transportation to Lowell of the two locomotives (Hercules and Stevenson), purchased in England. There they were set up; and as thirty-three years before, the waters of the Concord flow