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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal . (search)
Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal. By Herbert Pierce Yeaton.
[Concluded.]
the canal began at Middlesex Village, on the Merrimac river in the town of Chelmsford, and was lifted through a connected flight of three locks, passing under the main street over an aqueduct across the brook-near which are some quaint old houses erected by the proprietors for the use of their employes —and through the long swamp to River Meadow brook, also crossed by aqueduct.
Thence it was continued epair boats had the precedence over everything, then came passage boats, luggage or merchandise boats, and lastly rafts.
Landing and loading places were established at the millpond in Charlestown, in Medford, Woburn, Wilmington, Billerica, and Chelmsford.
No goods were allowed to be unloaded or loaded at any other places without a special permit from the agent, this being a precaution against damage to the banks.
Racing was prohibited.
Whenever a boat approached a lock, a horn was sounded to