Petition from residents of Concord, Mass., to H. Hosford, General Manager of Boston and Lowell Railroad, protesting building of new line through Concord, [1872].

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Petition from residents of Concord, Mass., to H. Hosford, General Manager of Boston and Lowell Railroad, protesting building of new line through Concord, [1872].

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Undated petition, signed by some 65 Concordians, including R.W. Emerson, A. Bronson Alcott, F.B. Sanborn, D.C. French, F.M. Holland, Ellen T. Emerson, Alicia M. Keyes, Charles H. Walcott, Alfred Munroe, Alfred W. Hosmer, and Rose Hawthorne Lathrop.

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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The route for the Boston and Lowell Railroad was surveyed in 1829; one year later the Massachusetts Legislature granted approval for the project. In June 1835, a single track linking Boston and Lowell was completed, making this one of the earliest steam railways in the U.S. In 1895 the Boston and Maine Railroad, lessor of the Boston and Lowell Railroad, decided to eliminate a dangerous grade crossing at Prison Point St. by building an overhead viaduct and bridge connecting Cambridge and Charlest...

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