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    Completed in 1796, the Pawtucket Canal was originally built as a transportation canal to circumvent the Pawtucket Falls of the Merrimack River in East...
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  • Pawtucket may refer to: Pawtucket, Rhode Island Pawtucket Falls (Massachusetts), Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell Power Canal System and Pawtucket Gatehouse...
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    begun in the 1790s, beginning its life as a transportation canal called the Pawtucket Canal, which was constructed to get logs from New Hampshire down...
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    business at the Pawtucket Canal, a transit canal opened in the 1790s which bypassed the Pawtucket Falls just downstream from the Middlesex Canal's northern end...
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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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    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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    necessitated the construction of the Pawtucket Canal in the last decade of the 18th century. In the 1820s, the falls, the canal, and the hydropower they provided...
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    already existent Pawtucket Canal, designed for transportation around the Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack, became the feeder canal for a 5.6-mile long...
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    this time, other small canals had been built around falls and rapids to make the Merrimack navigable, such as the Pawtucket Canal at East Chelmsford, which...
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  • Joshua Carter. The company was founded to construct the Pawtucket Canal around the Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack River, in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts...
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    Builders. Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. CA-63, "Pawtucket Canal", 28 photos, 7 measured drawings, 29 data pages, 3 photo caption pages...
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    of the falls is the Pawtucket Dam, designed to turn the upper Merrimack into a millpond, diverted through Lowell's extensive canal system. The Merrimack...
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    The Merrimack Canal is a power canal in Lowell, Massachusetts. The canal, dug in the 1820s, begins at the Pawtucket Canal just above Swamp Locks, and...
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    water-power potential of the Merrimack River and the already-existing Pawtucket Canal, linking the Merrimack with the Concord River. At Lowell, the Merrimack...
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    with a drainage area of 475 mi2 (1229 km2). It drains into the Pawtucket River at Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Its long history of industrial use in the watershed...
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  • Massachusetts Wasteway Merrimack Canal Merrimack Wasteway Northern Canal Pawtucket Canal Western Canal Long Pond Canal, Lakeville Madaket Ditch, Nantucket...
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    1850, Francis ordered the construction of the Great Gate over the Pawtucket Canal to protect the downtown mills from any devastating floods. This project...
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    The Pawtucket Red Sox, known colloquially as the PawSox, were a professional minor league baseball club based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. From 1973 to...
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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 into...
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    "Mariposa". United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 24 August 2015. Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. WA-169, "Pawtucket Canal", 6 data pages...
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    and Pawtucket Gatehouse (1821) Turners Falls Canal (1869) was originally a transport canal from 1798 Edison Sault Power Canal Nashua power canal (1826)...
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  • heart of the city, at the confluence of the Concord River and the Pawtucket Canal. It includes the five-story City Building, with classrooms, offices...
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    Pawtucket/Central Falls station is a commuter rail station in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It opened for MBTA Commuter Rail Providence/Stoughton Line service...
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    Industrial Revolution in America from its origin at the Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island as it first spread north along the valley to Worcester,...
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    side of Wannalancit Street, a residential street just east of the Pawtucket Canal west of downtown Lowell. It is set at the top of a low rise traversed...
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    Lowell Machine Shop was located at the junction of the Merrimack and Pawtucket Canals, near the Swamp Locks, across from Dutton Street in Lowell. In 1834...
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  • his permanent home ) Cummiskey and his men began reconstruction on Pawtucket Canal on April 6, 1822. In 1831, Cummiskey with other residents of the Paddy...
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    "Blackstone Canal, Albion vicinity, Providence County, RI", 3 photos, 1 data page, 1 photo caption page HAER No. RI-16, "Blackstone Canal, Pawtucket vicinity...
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    Blackstone Canal, which extends through Providence, Pawtucket, Woonsocket, and other communities appears here and on the Providence and Pawtucket lists; the...
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  • Thumbnail for National Register of Historic Places listings in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
    county's other municipalities are listed separately. Two Pawtucket listings, the Blackstone Canal and the Conant Thread-Coats & Clark Mill Complex District...
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