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Cambridgeport (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ilt for the advantage of the West Boston Bridge Proprietors and the owners of real estate in Cambridgeport. Jonathan L. Austin and others were incorporated March 2, 1808, for the purpose of buildingre made at the expense of their stockholders and others interested in West Boston Bridge and Cambridgeport lands; and Webster Avenue, by the parties specially interested, and at their own expense. associates, the owners of Canal Bridge, almost the whole of East Cambridge, and a portion of Cambridgeport. In connection with William Winthrop and the heirs of Francis Foxcroft, they opened and gra The owners were Henry Hill, Rufus Davenport, and Royal Makepeace, all largely interested in Cambridgeport lands. After other ineffectual efforts to have the road completed and established as a publie office of the City Clerk. They commence by alleging that the inhabitants of Cambridge and Cambridgeport are deeply afflicted by the incessant machinations and intrigues of Mr. Andrew Craigie, in r
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
e important than one at the ferry-way, as petitioned for by some of the inhabitants of Charlestown. This effort to secure a direct route to Boston failed; the Charlestown petition was granted, March 9, 1785; and Charles River Bridge was opened with imposing ceremonies on the 17th of June, 1786. The desired accommodation for Cambridge, however, was not long postponed. In the Columbian Centinel, Jan. 7, 1792, appeared this advertisement:— West Boston Bridge. As all citizens of the United States have an equal right to propose a measure that may be beneficial to the public or advantageous to themselves, and as no body of men have an exclusive right to take to themselves such a privilege, a number of gentlemen have proposed to open a new subscription for the purpose of building a bridge from West Boston to Cambridge, at such place as the General Court may be pleased to direct. A subscription for two hundred shares in the proposed bridge will this day be opened at Samuel Cooper's
Prison Point (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
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 the dam, not less than thirty feet in width, and partly because in an act relative to the Boston and Low
Menotomy (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
defrayed and borne as followeth: (that is to say) two sixth parts thereof by the town of Cambridge, one sixth part by the said Village, Newton was at first called Cambridge Village. and three sixth parts at the public charge of the county of Middlesex. Newton continued to pay its proportion of the expense until May 4, 1781, when it was exempted from further liability by the General Court. Mass. Rec., XLII. 98. In like manner, when Lexington was incorporated, March 20, 1712-13, and West Cambridge, Feb. 27, 1807, they were required to share with Cambridge the expense of maintaining the bridge, in proportion to the respective valuation of the several towns, which they continued to do until they were released from that obligation, March 24, 1860, by the General Court. Mass. Spec. Laws, XI. 56. In the meantime, various expedients were adopted by the Court to aid Cambridge in sustaining what was considered, and what actually was, a grievous burden. Thus, in June, 1694, it was reso
Mount Auburn (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ses committed, or which may hereafter be committed by him or others upon the road before described. In continuation of this road, and to complete a nearly straight avenue from the Watertown line to West Boston Bridge, the town voted, Sept. 6, 1808, to lay out Mount Auburn Street, from Holyoke Street to Main Street. Meanwhile, Mr. Craigie made several efforts to have Brattle Street laid out from Fayerweather Street to Wyeth's sign-post, which stood near the present junction of Brattle and Mount Auburn streets, to counteract the effect of opening the new Mount Auburn Street; this object was not accomplished until September, 1812, when that portion of Brattle Street was very properly laid out,—not by the town, however, but by the county, as a county road. What is now known as Cambridge Street was constructed in the interest of Mr. Craigie and his associates, the owners of Canal Bridge, almost the whole of East Cambridge, and a portion of Cambridgeport. In connection with William Wint
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
festly, as the remonstrants had stated, a continuation of a plan of him and his coadjutors, commenced in 1797, and invariably pursued to 1809, to turn the travel to that quarter; and the same game he is evidently now playing, by the petition signed by T. H. Perkins and others. That such a petition, viz. to lay out roads without number, with courses undefined, by a committee of the Legislature, your remonstrants conceive, never was before offered to any Court, Legislative or Judicial, of Massachusetts; that a Bill reported in accordance with these petitions, was rejected; that the principal object of all these petitions, viz. to open a road from Mr. Wyeth's sign-post to Mr. Fayerweather's corner, Namely, Brattle Street, from Fresh Pond Lane to Fayerweather Street. has been three times before the Court of Sessions of Middlesex, has been as often rejected by it, and has been once suppressed after it had obtained by intrigue and surprise the sanction of that honorable Court; and it is
West Boston (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
own expense, a bridge over Charles River, from Lechmere's Point in this town to Barton's Point, or such other place in West Boston as shall be thought most expedient; and to demonstrate that such a bridge would be more important than one at the ferr a privilege, a number of gentlemen have proposed to open a new subscription for the purpose of building a bridge from West Boston to Cambridge, at such place as the General Court may be pleased to direct. A subscription for two hundred shares in tmmediately commencing the work. Its completion was announced in the Centinel, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1793: The Bridge at West Boston was opened for passengers &c., on Saturday last. The elegance of the workmanship and the magnitude of the undertaking 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
Roxbury, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
l (or Craigie's) Bridge. Prison Point Bridge. River Street Bridge. Western Avenue Bridge. Brookline Bridge. all the Bridges become free. public avenues. Sharp contest in regard to Mount Auburn and Cambridge streets. important legal principle first established in the trial and decision of this contest It has already been stated in chapter v., that a ferry was established in 1635 across Charles River (at the foot of Dunster Street), from which there was a road through Brookline and Roxbury to Boston. The only other feasible route to Boston was through Charlestown, and across a ferry near Copp's Hill. Desiring to avoid the inconvenience and peril of a ferry, the inhabitants of Cambridge consented, Nov. 10, 1656, to pay each one their proportion of a rate to the sum of 2001. towards the building a bridge over Charles River, upon condition the same may be effected without further charge to the town. A place for the bridge was selected, at the foot of Brighton Street; but the
Brighton, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
nd confirmed, Sept. 13, 1734. Ibid., XVI. 54. All other corporations having been released from liability, the General Court made a final disposition of the matter by an act passed March 11, 1862, by which the city of Cambridge and the town of Brighton were authorized and required to rebuild the Great Bridge over Charles River, the expense to be borne in proportion to the respective valuations of said city and town; and it was provided that a draw, not less than thirty-two feet wide, should be constructed at an equal distance from each abutment, that the opening in the middle of said draw should be the dividing line between Cambridge and Brighton at that point, and that thereafter each corporation should maintain its half part of the whole structure at its own expense. Mass. Spec. Laws, XI. 280. In June, 1738, a petition of Edmund Goffe, William Brattle, and others of Cambridge, for liberty to establish a ferry between Cambridge and Boston, of which the profits should be paid
Middlesex Village (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
r, with courses undefined, by a committee of the Legislature, your remonstrants conceive, never was before offered to any Court, Legislative or Judicial, of Massachusetts; that a Bill reported in accordance with these petitions, was rejected; that the principal object of all these petitions, viz. to open a road from Mr. Wyeth's sign-post to Mr. Fayerweather's corner, Namely, Brattle Street, from Fresh Pond Lane to Fayerweather Street. has been three times before the Court of Sessions of Middlesex, has been as often rejected by it, and has been once suppressed after it had obtained by intrigue and surprise the sanction of that honorable Court; and it is now a fifth time pending in the existing Court of Sessions of that County; that the petition of T. H. Perkins and others prays for a committee to explore, view, and mark out new highways from the westerly end of the Canal Bridge to communicate with the great roads into the country, etc.; that this petition is predicated on the feebl
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