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Billerica (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
North Nashua River (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
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Middlesex Canal (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex Canal. By Herbert Pierce Yeaton.
Navigation on the Merrimac River.
the Canals of the Merrimac River had their day and active existence in the first half of the last century.
They have been referred to as the earliest step towards a solution of the problem of cheap transportation between Boston and the northern country; but perhaps they may be more properly classed as the second step in that direction, the turnpikes having been in the field.
James Sullivan and his associates, the original projectors of the canal system, undoubtedly had in mind, not only to connect Boston with the Merrimac River country, but also to extend their canals from the Merrimac to the Connecticut River, and from the Connecticut River to Lake Champlain, and through its outlet to the St. Lawrence, thus bringing Boston into island water communication with Montreal and the lower Canada.
The project was too vast, and the physical obstacles too formidable to admit