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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 13 13 Browse Search
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) 10 10 Browse Search
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 7 7 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 6 6 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 5 5 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 5 5 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 5 5 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 2 2 Browse Search
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 2 2 Browse Search
Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White) 2 2 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., Medford steamboat days. (search)
he boat, &c., &c. One item under date of August 11, 1818, at once fixed our attention. It is this: 1 day to Medford with steamboat, $1.50. The bill bears the check mark of examination and was duly paid. Thus it appears that the little steamboat Merrimack has the unique distinction of steaming through Medford waters on August 11, 1818, one month and six days before the Eagle, (which was but little larger) made her first appearance in Boston harbor. Through this little old town of barely 1400 people with its ship building industry but a few years in progress, close beside, and never far from, but over and across our tidal river, beside our beautiful lake and through the enchanting woodlands that bordered it, to but not into the smaller river then within our bounds, came the precursor of the modern tow-boat, at that time the only steamboat plying in the waters of the old Bay State. The query will be raised, Why was not this apparently successful navigation of canal and river con