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    The Middlesex Canal was a 27-mile (44-kilometer) barge canal connecting the Merrimack River with the port of Boston. When operational it was 30 feet (9...
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    the United States. However, within a decade of its construction the Middlesex Canal was completed, connecting the Merrimack directly with Boston, Massachusetts...
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  • the site was known as the Canal Bridge, named after the Middlesex Canal which ran from the Charlestown Mill Pond to Middlesex Village in East Chelmsford...
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    other Middlesex County) Metropolitan State Hospital (Lexington, Waltham and other Middlesex County) Middlesex Canal (Lowell and other Middlesex County)...
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    were the South Hadley Canal (opened 1795) in Massachusetts, Santee Canal (opened 1800) in South Carolina, the Middlesex Canal (opened 1802) also in Massachusetts...
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    engineers. He surveyed and was responsible for the construction of the Middlesex Canal, but today he is perhaps best remembered for the Baldwin apple which...
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    Baldwin House (Woburn, Massachusetts) (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
    historical nature of the site. The historic 1790 House was across the Middlesex Canal. The original Baldwin House was built in 1661 by Henry Baldwin, one...
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    paralleled improvements in transportation. Prior to incorporation, the Middlesex Canal, linking the Merrimack River to Boston, was completed through then...
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  • Telford James Geddes, Ohio and Erie Canal John B. Jervis, Delaware and Hudson Canal Loammi Baldwin, Middlesex Canal to Boston Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Poe...
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    Middlesex Canal. Converting the canal to a railroad would eliminate the issue of transportation being unavailable during the winter, when the canal froze...
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    The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic...
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    Woburn, Massachusetts (category Cities in Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
    of important events Gershom Flagg's tannery was built in 1668 The Middlesex Canal was opened in 1803 Thompson established a tannery at Cummingsville...
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    North Billerica, Massachusetts (category Villages in Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
    Faulkner and Talbot mills and the North Billerica Train Depot. The Middlesex Canal was built through the village in 1783 and the Boston and Lowell Railroad...
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    charitable and business endeavors. He was a leading proponent of the Middlesex Canal and the first bridge between Boston and Cambridge, and was instrumental...
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    centers along the way. As its route closely paralleled that of the Middlesex Canal, and later the railroad, it suffered stiff competition for both freight...
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts (category Cities in Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
    Cambridge (/ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ/ KAYM-brij) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area...
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  • Unfortunately the creation of the Middlesex Canal, which formed a direct route to Boston, severely harmed the Pawtucket Canal's prospects, and it swiftly fell...
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    sporting matches, especially soccer. At one time a portion of the Middlesex Canal was located on land that became this park. An extension of the Green...
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    holes. Indiana canals had leaks from burrowing crawfish. Canal companies would often post bounties for muskrats, e.g. the Middlesex Canal. Pounds can be...
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    Horn Pond (Massachusetts) (category Lakes of Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
    Mystic River and the Atlantic Ocean. It was also traversed by the Middlesex Canal from 1802 to 1860. Yellow perch were the most common species recorded...
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    Arlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The town is six miles (10 km) northwest of Boston, and its population was 46,308...
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    Contra Costa Canal Corning Canal Delta–Mendota Canal Eastside Canal Folsom South Canal Friant-Kern Canal Glenn Colusa Canal Inter-California Canal Kern Island...
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    on April 19, 1775, and fought at Merriam's Corner in Concord. The Middlesex Canal passed through Wilmington. Chartered in 1792, opened in 1803, it provided...
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  • from New Hampshire to the shipyards of Newburyport, the competing Middlesex Canal, a direct route to Boston, opened just ten years later, ruining the...
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  • Baldwin of Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. Baldwin was the agent for the Middlesex Canal after having taken part in the survey work with his father and brothers...
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    allowed for a proliferation of mills and factories. The building of the Middlesex Canal extended this small river network to the larger Merrimack River and...
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    work in Boston in his early teens, when his father died. He worked on Middlesex Canal boats on his way, and then began his career selling fish and oysters...
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    Mystic River (category Rivers of Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
    the river's beach in the Battle of Bunker Hill in June. In 1805, the Middlesex Canal linked the Charles and Mystic Rivers to the Merrimack River in Lowell...
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  • toward reviving Morse's memory yesterday afternoon, when they dedicated Middlesex Community College's Federal Building in honor of the late U.S. representative...
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