Business records, 1828-1851 (inclusive).

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Business records, 1828-1851 (inclusive).

Twenty-seven small notebooks and two boxes of unbound papers relating to road building, experiments at the Mill Dam and City Mills, Boston, construction work on Worcester and Providence, Vermont Central, and Fitchburg Railroads, proposals for grading Bunker Hill Monument; there are also plans of wharves, family deeds, and miscellaneous engineering papers. Items not specifically connected with Felton relate to the Boston and Roxbury Water Supply Company, Taylor's Falls Bridge, Nashua, N.H. (Loammi Baldwin et al vs. David Ames, Jr.), and S.F. Johnson, surveyor on the Worcester and Providence railroads. There is also one volume recording tolls paid, 1828-1834, on the Warren Bridge, Boston to Charlestown, Mass.

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Felton, S. M. (Samuel Morse), 1809-1889

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Civil engineer of Boston, Mass., and railroad executive. Graduated from Harvard (1834). Engineer for Loammi Baldwin, Jr. and took over his business after Baldwin's death in 1838. Superintendent of construction, Fitchburg Railroad (1843). Later served as president of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (1851-1864). From the description of Business records, 1828-1851 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269599364 President of the Philadelphia...

Lowell and Lawrence Railroad.

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City Mills.

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Boston and Maine Railroad

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Johnson, S. F.

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Boston and Roxbury Water Supply Company.

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Fitchburg Railroad

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Ames, David, 1967-

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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...

Vermont Central Railroad

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