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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
, 27. Local History, Teaching of, in the Public Schools, 57-64. London, Eng., 26, 73. Longfellow, H. W., 82. Lord Macaulay, 64. Lovell's Island, 12, 13. Lowell, Mass., 4, 5, 6, 8, 9. Lowell Road, 3. Lowell & Nashua Railroad, 10. Luxford, —, 33. Lynn Farm, 12. Lyon, The Ship, 32. Magoun, —, 40. Main Street (Broadway), Somerville, 22. Main Street, Charlestown, 3. Main Street, Medford, 3. Malden, Mass., 12, 58, 66. Mallet, Isaac, 66, 67. Manet, Thomas, 76. Maple Meadow Brook, 2. Marlboro, Mass., 55. Mason, Rebecca, 48. Mason, Thaddeus, Esq., 48. Massachusetts Bay, 27. Massachusetts Bay Company, 27. Massachusetts Genealogical Society, 65. Massachusetts Historical Society, 63. Massachusetts Medical Association, 18. Mather, Cotton, 30, 35. McGill, Robert, 7. Medford, 3, 7, 10, 15, 16, 31, 38, 55, 69, 87. Medford Side District, 15. Medford-street School, 70. Menotime Bridge, 75. Menotomy (West Cambridge), 18. Meredith, N. H., 37. Mer
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., An eighteenth century enterprise. (search)
y a wooden aqueduct one hundred and thirtyseven feet long, elevated thirty feet above its current. While the aqueducts were costly, yet the long stretches of meadow land the canal had to cross were extremely treacherous and swallowed up a vast amount of filling ere the course of the canal was secure. In some intervals they had to be filled upwards of one hundred feet in width to a depth of ten feet to form the canal bed before the embankments were made. This difficulty overcome and Maple Meadow Brook (the source of Ipswich River) crossed, a loop, called the Ox-bow, had to be made around a hill. Much of the work was through a sandy soil, but in various places its course could not avoid ledges of solid rock. These taxed the effort and patience of the laborers, who were mostly native born, as emigration from Ireland, Italy and Hungary was then but slight. The shore of Medford Pond, or, as it is now termed, Mystic Lake, was originally intended for the southern terminus, but the ca