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Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex Canal. (search)
belongs to the latter half of that period. In the month of May, 1793, a certain number of gentlemen assembled for the purpose of ‘opening a canal from the waters of the Merrimac, by Concord River or in some other way, through the waters of Mystic River to the town of Boston.’ There were present at this meeting the Hon. James Sullivan, who was at this time attorney general, and later governor of Massachusetts, and in whose fertile mind the idea originated; Benjamin Hall, Willis Hall, Ebenezering into the river at Chelmsford had been poled up the stream as far as Concord, New Hampshire. Firewood and lumber always formed a very considerable item in the business of the canal. The Navy Yard at Charlestown and the ship yards on the Mystic River for many years relied on the canal for the greater part of the timber used in ship-building, and work was sometimes seriously retarded by low water in the Merrimac, which interfered with transportation. The supply of oak and pine about Lake W
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, The Prospect Hill Park Celebration. (search)
of tiny proportions—only twenty-one tons—it did good service along the shores of New England in protecting the interests of the settlers—the traders and the fishermen—from the attacks of Indians and others on the high seas. Mr. Mayor, when the history of Somerville shall appear, one of the most interesting chapters, I fancy, will refer to ‘Somerville During the Siege of Boston.’ The whole of our area was virtually a military camp. The line of earthworks extended across the town from Mystic river to the Cambridge line, thence on to Dorchester; our own citizens, as well as the other undisciplined yeomen from all the back country, lined the trenches and stood behind the guns! In some way the exact line of these entrenchments and these forts should be permanently marked. I would suggest a line of steel flagstaffs at regular intervals from which each day Old Glory should float; from the top of these poles at night parti-colored incandescent lights might appear, and so by a di
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Index (search)
37 Miles ( Myles), Samuel, Schoolmaster, 168437, 38 Minute Men, The79 Mistick Side15 Mistick Side Schoolhouse64 Montreal49 Moore, Abraham M.43 Moor's Falls50 Morley, Catharine19 Morley, John, Schoolmaster, 165219 Morley, Ralph19 Morris, Martha14 Morton, Nicholas60 Moulton's Point90 Mount Pleasant Street, Somerville44 Mousall, Ralph17 Moylan, Colonel Stephen87 Moylan's Dragoons87 Munroe, Charles44 Munroe Estate, The45 Munroe, Louisa45 Munster, Ireland65 Mystic Pond53 Mystic River52, 56, 79, 82, 86, 90 Myles (Miles) Samuel, Schoolmaster, 168437, 38 Nashua & Lowell R. R.56 Nashua River50 Nashua Village50, 51 Nathan Tufts Park66 Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.23 Navigation on the Merrimac49 Necrology Committee, Report of22 Neighborhood Sketch, No. 642 Newbury, Mass.40 Newell, John36 New England Bank, Boston43 ‘New England,’ Neal42 ‘New England's Crisis,’ Thompson34 New Haven, Conn.20 New Rochelle, N. Y.12, 13 Nixon, Col.94 Normandy, France10, 12 Nor