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Browsing named entities in Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905.
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Nashua (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Roxbury, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Merrimack (United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal. By Herbert Pierce Yeaton.
[Concluded.]
the canal began at Middlesex Village, on the Merrimac river in the town of Chelmsford, and was lifted through a connected flight of three locks, passing under the main street over an aqueduct across the brook-near which are some quaint ol diameter, and shed at one end with a long iron point), completed the propelling outfit.
The crew consisted of a skipper and two bowmen.
In going down the Merrimac river the scull oars were used, and when there was a fair wind a sail was hoisted.
In going down the river, the bowmen took positions close to either side of the b ery small structure, and in very good repair, and is surrounded by traces of the enterprise that called it into being.
(A few rods away to the north runs the Merrimac river, skirted by the Lowell & Nashua railroad—now a part of the Boston & Maine.
The latter stands like a sentry, as it were, forbidding the corpse of the old cana
Mystic Pond (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Charles (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Mystick River (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Shawsheen (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
River Meadow Brook (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal. By Herbert Pierce Yeaton.
[Concluded.]
the canal began at Middlesex Village, on the Merrimac river in the town of Chelmsford, and was lifted through a connected flight of three locks, passing under the main street over an aqueduct across the brook-near which are some quaint old houses erected by the proprietors for the use of their employes —and through the long swamp to River Meadow brook, also crossed by aqueduct.
Thence it was continued to Billerica, where it entered the Concord river by a stone guard lock, with a floating tow path, and passed out on the southern side through another stone guard lock.
The canal is still used by the Talbot mills at North Billerica for the supply of water for power, and in this connection they have retained one of the lock gates, thus saving for us one of the best preserved and most interesting features of the old canal.
On the south bank of the Concord river an extensive cutting through rocks