Course of canal to Charlestown Millpond. [ca. 1802]

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Course of canal to Charlestown Millpond. [ca. 1802]

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This manuscript survey describes the course of the final 2.25 miles of the Middlesex Canal, terminating in the Charlestown Millpond. Distances are marked off in rods, and property owners indicated, as are locks, culverts crossroads (e.g., the Great Boston Road), and other features. Columns of calculations at left tally lengths of canal on different property owners' land. (From Dealer's notes.).

1 ms. map ; on sheet 81 x 33 cm.

Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square

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Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square

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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...