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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 13: civil History. (search)
. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., VII. 3, 4. The peculiar circumstances connected with the construction of Canal (or Craigie's) Bridge are related in chapter XII. The sharp rivalry between the proprietors of West Boston and Canal Bridges, and between land-owners especially benefited by the one or the other, resulted in the erection of other bridges and the opening of several new streets. Prison Point Bridge is said to have been erected by virtue of a charter, granted June 21, 1806, to Samuel H. Flagg and others, as Proprietors of the Prison Point dam Corporation, for building a damn from Prison Point in Charlestown to Lechmere's Point in Cambridge, and erecting mills on the same. No dam was constructed nor mill erected: but in 1815, Prison Point Bridge was built for the benefit of Canal Bridge; and this is presumed to have been done under authority of the charter for a dam granted in 1806, partly because that charter authorized the proprietors to construct a travelling path across