Loammi Baldwin papers

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Loammi Baldwin papers

1827-1916

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Loammi Baldwin, 1780-1838, was a civil engineer whose projects included canal construction and harbor improvement, railroads, water power projects, and city water supplies. The collection includes correspondence, reports, tide tables, cost estimates, drawings, notes, computations, and court records describing Baldwin's design and construction of dry docks for the United States Navy at Charlestown, Massachustts, and Gosport (Norfolk), Virginia. Project materials date from between 1827 and 1834.

1.4 cubic feet; (1 legal manuscript box, 7 volumes)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries

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Charlestown Navy Yard (Mass.)

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Baldwin, George Rumford, 1798-1888

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Norfolk Navy Yard (U.S.)

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Baldwin, Loammi, 1780-1838

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Loammi Baldwin, 1780-1838, class of 1800, Harvard College, was a lawyer and later a civil engineer whose projects included canal construction and harbor improvement, railroads, water power projects, and city water supplies. He was in charge of the design and construction of dry docks at the Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia, Navy Yards. His father (Loammi Baldwin, 1745-1807) was one of New England's first civil engineers, and his brothers, James Fowle Baldwin and George Rumford B...

Baldwin, James Fowle, 1782-1862

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James Fowle Baldwin (1782-1862), the son of Loammi (for whom the Baldwin apple was named) and Mary Fowle Baldwin, was a civil engineer. He helped his brother, Loammi, construct the dry dock at Charlestown Navy Yard. In 1828, he was appointed by the state of Massachusetts as a commissioner to make surveys for a railroad from Boston to Albany, and from 1830 to 1835, he built the Boston and Lowell road. He was a state senator from Suffolk. He was born on 29 April 1782 in Woburn, Mass., married Sara...