MIDDLESEX CANAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
[from Middlesex Canal Phase IV report]
Published Sources
Anon.
1813 Remarks on the Importance of Inland Navigation from Boston by the
Middlesex Canal and Merrimack River. Boston, MA.
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1860 Statement to the Public in Reference to the Act of the
Legislature to Remove the Dam Across the Concord River at Billerica. Stone
& Huse Book Printers.
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1877 Official Reports of the Canal Commissioners of the State of New
York. New York, NY.
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1885 A Sketch of the Life and Works of Loammi Baldwin, Civil Engineer.
Boston, MA.
American Society of Civil Engineers
1972 Biographical Dictionary of American Civil Engineers.
Committee on History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering, A.S.C.E., New
York, NY.
Amory, T. C.
1859 Life of James Sullivan: with Selections from his Writings.
Boston, MA.
Baldwin, Charles C.
1881 The Baldwin Genealogy from 1500 to 1881. Cleveland, OH.
Baldwin, George R.
1860 Report on Supplying the City of Charlestown with Pure Water: Made
for the City Council by Order of Hon. James Dana, Mayor of Charlestown, by
George R- Baldwin and Charles L. Stevenson, Civil Engineers. Boston, MA.
Baldwin, Loammi
1834 Report on the Subject of Introducing Pure Water into the City of
Boston. Boston, MA.
Barry, John Stetson.
1855 The History of Massachusetts. 3 Vols. Boston, MA.
Beers, F. W.
1875 County Atlas of Middlesex, Massachusetts. New York, NY.
Brooks, Charles.
1855 History of the Town of Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts,
from Its First Settlement, in 1630, to the Present Time. Boston, MA.
Cadbury, George and Dibbs, Sealey P.
1929 Canals and Inland Waterways. New York, NY.
Chapman, Henry S.
1936 History of Winchester, Massachusetts. Winchester, MA.
Clarke, Mary Stetson
1971 Guide to the Middlesex Canal, 1793-1853. The Middlesex Canal
Association
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1974 The Old Middlesex Canal. Center for Canal History and
Technology, Easton, PA.
Coolidge, John
n.d. Mill and Mansion: Architecture and Society in Lowell,
Massachusetts 1820-1865. The University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA.
Davis J. S.
1917 Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations. 2
Vols., Cambridge, MA.
Drake, S. A.
1899 Historic Mansions and Highways around Boston. Boston, MA.
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1880 History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. 2 Vols.,Boston,
MA.
Eddy, Caleb
1843 Historical Sketch of the Middlesex Canal with Remarks for the
Consideration of the Proprietors. Samuel N. Dickinson, Boston, MA.
Ellis, G. E.
1871 Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, with Notices to
His Daughter. Boston, MA.
Eno, Arthur L., Jr., ed.
1976 Cotton Was King: A History of Lowell, Massachusetts. New
Hampshire Publishing Company in collaboration with the Lowell Historical
Society, Lowell, MA.
Farmer, John
1816 Historical Memoir of Billerica. Amherst, NH.
Frederick, John H.
1932 Development of American Commerce. New York, NY.
Fulton, Robert
1796 Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation. London,
England.
Gallatin, Albert.
1808 Report of-the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Subject of Public
Roads and Canals. Washington, DC.
Goodrich, Carter.
1961 Canals and American Economic Development. New York, NY.
Gould, L. S.
1905 Ancient Middlesex, with Brief Biographical Sketches of the Men
Who Have Served the County Officially since Its Settlement. Somerville, MA.
Hadfield, Charles
1969 The Canal Age. New York, NY.
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1971 Canal Enthusiasts' Handbook. Newton, MA..
Hale, Edward Everett
1893 A New England Boyhood. New York, NY.
Harlow, Alvin F.
1964 Old Towpaths. New York, NY 1926; New Edition, Kennikat Press
Inc., Port Washington, NY.
Hart, A. B., Ed.
1927 Commonwealth History of Massachusetts, Vol. IV. New York, NY.
Hazen, H. A.
1883 History of Billerica. Boston, MA.
Holmes, Cary W.
1975 The Middlesex Canal and the Coming of the Railroad 1792-1853:
Towpaths to Oblivion. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA.
Hoxie, Wilbar M., P.E.
1967 Precis in Partial Justification for Recommending the Middlesex
Canal 1793-1853 as an Historic Landmark of American Civil Engineering under the
History and Heritage Program of the American Society of Civil Engineering.
Hurd, D. H., Ed.
1890 History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical
Sketches of' Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, 3 Vols. Philadelphia,
PA.
Jennings, W. W.
1926 A History of Economic Progress in the United States. New
York, NY.
Lawrence, Lewis M.
1942 The Middlesex Canal. Middlesex Canal Association, Boston, MA.
Locher, Harry 0., Ed.
1963 Waterways of the United States. New York, NY.
Massachusetts, Commonwealth of
1965 Report of the Water Resources Commission Relative to the Public
Water Supply Resources of the Ipswich River. Wright & Potter Printing
Co., Boston, MA.
Meyer, B. H., Ed.
1917 History of Transportation in the United States before 1860.
Washington, DC.
Middlesex Canal Association
1967 The Middlesex Canal 1793-1859. pamphlet, Billerica, MA.
Morison, Samuel Eliot.
1921 The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860. Boston, MA.
Munro, Melville Smith.
1932 The Old Middlesex Canal in 1932, 3 Vol.
Payne, Pierre Stephen Robert
1959 The Canal Builders: The Story of Canal Engineers Through the Ages.
New York, NY.
Peters, Wayne R.
1984 This Enchanted Land: Middlesex Village. Martin Publishing
Co., Lowell, MA.
Poor, Henry V.
1860 History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States. New
York, NY.
Preble, G. A.
1883 A Chronological History of the Origin and Development of Steam
Navigation. Philadelphia, PA.
Roberts, Christopher
1938 The Middlesex Canal, 1793-1860. Harvard University Press,
Cambridge, MA.
Seaburg, Carl and Alan, and Thomas Dahill
1997 The Incredible Ditch, A Bicentennial History of the Middlesex
Canal. The Anne Miniver Press, for the Medford Historical Society, Medford,
MA.
Secor, J.
1817 Treatise on Internal Navigation: The Report of Albert Gallatin on
Roads and Canal. U.F. Doubleday, Ballston Spa, NY.
Sewall, Samuel
1868 The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Boston, MA.
Sherbourne, R. P.
1888 What Has Been: A Sketch of the Old Middlesex Canal. pamphlet,
Woburn Public Library, Woburn, MA.
Smiles, Samuel
1868 Lives of the Engineers, 4 Vols. London, England.
Stuart, C. B
1871 Lives and Works of Civil and Military Engineers of America.
New York, NY.
Sullivan, John Langdon
1818 Letters First Published in the Boston Daily Advertiser.
Boston, MA.
Tanner, H. W.
1840 A Description of the Canals and Rail Roads of the United States,
Comprehending Notices of All the Works of Internal Improvement throughout the
Several States. New York, NY.
Thoreau, Henry David
1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. 1849. Reprint The
Concord and the Merrimack. Dudley C. Lunt, ed., Bramhall, New York, NY.
Town of Billerica
1855 Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation
of Billerica, Massachusetts, May 29th, 1855. Lowell, MA.
Vose, George L.
1885 Notes on Early Transportation in Massachusetts. New York, NY.
Waters, Wilson
1917 History of Chelmsford. Lowell, MA.
Weston, William
1799 Report on the Practicability of Introducing the Water of the
River Bronx into the City of New York. New York, NY.
Winthrop, James
1838 "Biographical Memoir of the Honorable James Sullivan,
Esq." Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. 1,
Second Series, Boston, MA.
Unpublished Sources
Adams, Charles Francis.
n.d. "A Paper on the Middlesex Canal." M/CFA/21, Adams Papers,
Microfilms, Reel No. 315.
Adams, George R.
1977 Lowell Locks and Canals Historic District National Register of
Historic Places Nomination Form. On file at the Massachusetts Historical
Commission, Boston, MA.
Anon.
n.d. The Old Middlesex Canal: A Story in Pictures, 1932. 2 Vol.
Scrapbooks with photographs. Archives, Wessell Library, Tufts University,
Medford, MA.
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n.d. Badger and Porter's Stage Register. Boston, MA.
Baldwin Family
n.d. Vertical files and manuscripts relating to the Middlesex Canal. On
file at Harvard University, Baker Business Library Historical Collections,
Cambridge, MA.
Baldwin, Loammi, et al.
1793 Press Report of a Preliminary Route Survey of the Middlesex Canal.
On file at the Mogan Cultural Center, Lowell, MA
Condon, Henry S.
1985 The Former Middlesex Canal and the Medford Branch Canal in
Medford, Middlesex County, MA 1793-1853. Unpublished manuscript on file at
the Middlesex Canal Commission, Winchester, MA.
Elia, Ricardo J. and Nancy S. Seasholes
1990 Phase II Archaeological Investigation of a Section of the
Middlesex Canal in Wilmington, Massachusetts. Office of the Public
Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, MA.
Fitch, Virginia A., Mary E. Myer, and Dr. Charles E. Stearns
1983 Billerica Mills Historic District National Register of Historic
Places Nomination. On file at the Massachusetts Historical Commission,
Boston, MA.
Fitzsimmons, Neal
1966 The Old Middlesex Canal: Civil Engineering Landmark.
Kensington, MD.
Franceschi, Michael
1971 Middlesex Canal - Shawsheen Aqueduct National Register of
Historic Places Nomination Form. On file at the Massachusetts Historical
Commission, Boston, MA.
Hagopian, Roger
1996 Middlesex Canal Access Charts. The Middlesex Canal
Association.
Hale, Richard W.
1972 Middlesex Canal National Register of Historic Places Nomination
Form. On file at the Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
Harvard University
1800 Class Book of Harvard, Class of 1800, "Loammi
Baldwin" (11). Cambridge, MA.
Industrial Archaeology Associates
1980 Middlesex Canal Survey. Report on file at the Massachusetts
Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
Joy, Thomas and Gretchen Sanders Joy
1991 Early Canal Transportation: The Boats of the Middlesex Canal.
Exhibit at the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center, University of Lowell, Center
for Lowell History, Lowell, MA.
Lawrence III, William A.
n.d. The Middlesex Canal: A Technological Triumph, a Business
Enterprise, and a Financial Fiasco.
Massachusetts Historical Commission
1980 MHC Reconnaissance Survey Report, Town of Billerica, MA. Original
report on file at Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
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1980 MHC Reconnaissance Survey Report, Town of Charlestown, MA. Original
report on file at Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
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1980 MHC Reconnaissance Survey Report, Town of Chelmsford, MA. Original
report on file at Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
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1980 MHC Reconnaissance Survey Report, Town of Lowell, MA. Original
report on file at Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
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1980 MHC Reconnaissance Survey Report, Town of Medford, MA. Original
report on file at Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
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1980 MHC Reconnaissance Survey Report, Town of Somerville, MA. Original
report on file at Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
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1980 MHC Reconnaissance Survey Report, Town of Woburn, MA. Original report on file at Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
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1981 MHC Reconnaissance Survey Report, Town of Wilmington, MA. Original
report on file at Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
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1981 MHC Reconnaissance Survey Report, Town of Winchester, MA. Original
report on file at Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
McCormick, Patrick A.
n.d. The Rise and Decline of the Middlesex Canal. North Billerica,
MA.
Metropolitan Area Planning Council
1979 "Renewal Plans Inject Life Into Century-Old Canal." Metropolitan
Area Planning Commission Regional Report, February, p.1.
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1980 Middlesex Canal Heritage Park Feasibility Study. Prepared for
the Middlesex Canal Commission.
Middlesex Canal Association
1793-1859 Records of the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal. On
file at the Mogan Cultural Center/ Center for Lowell History, Lowell, MA.
Molloy, Peter M.
1976 Middlesex Canal Dam and Locks HAER Inventory Card.
Pearsall, Paul P.
1982 Middlesex Village Grand Reunion: A Historic Report on Middlesex
Village. Lowell, MA, 12 September.
Rawson, Michael J.
n.d. Imprints of the Past: The Brooks Estate in Medford, Massachusetts.
Silver, Ruth
n.d. "The Middlesex Canal." manuscript, Woburn Public Library,
Woburn, MA.
Smith, Tom
1984 Baldwin Mansion History. The Middlesex Canal Association.
Strauss, Alan E. and Lauren J. Cook
1998 Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of the Cummingsville Branch
Replacement Sewer Project, MWRA Contract NO. 6092. Boston Affiliates, Inc,
Boston, MA.
Sullivan, John L.
1821 Public Documents Relating to the New York Canal. Part of
Report Regarding the New York Canal Commission.
VerPlanck, Burt
1996 Middlesex Canal Guide and Maps. Middlesex Canal Association.
Weible, Robert and Betsy Bahr
n.d. Lowell National Historical Park Historic Resource Study.
United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Lowell National
Historical Park, Lowell, MA.
Newspapers
Amaro
1998 "Commission Seeking Support for Restoring Part of Middlesex
Canal." The Sun, 5 February.
Anon.
1897 "The Old Middlesex Canal." Boston Sunday Herald, 26
September.
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1900 "Charming Boulevard in the Valley of the Mystic." Boston
Globe, 17 March.
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1909 "Only Living Ex-Locktender of the Old Middlesex Canal." Boston
Journal, 22 August.
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1911 "Old Landmark Gone: Destruction of the Granite Arch Bridge Over
the Middlesex Canal Is Regretted on Account of Its History and Beauty." Medford
Mercury, 25 August.
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1933 "Granite Arch Destroyed." Medford Daily Mercury, 1
May.
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1941 "The Middlesex Canal." Boston Traveler, 11
November.
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1955 "Mementos of Famed Middlesex Canal Are Still Visible." Medford
Daily Mercury, 14 June.
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1962 "New Fire-Police Bldg. Rising on Part of Old Middlesex Canal:
Branch of Waterway Served Wagon Factory." Medford Mercury, 22
August.
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1962 "New Englanders Aim to Restore Part of the Old Middlesex
Canal." Christian Science Monitor, 27 November.
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1967 "The Middlesex Canal." Boston Sunday Herald, 8
January.
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1971 "The Middlesex Canal, 1793-1853." Vol. 6, No. 1, March.
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1980 "Henry Condon is a Professional "Canal Sleuth"."
Medford Daily Mercury, 3 September.
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1983 "Walk the Historic Middlesex Canal." 19 October.
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1988 "Plaque Notes Path of Middlesex Canal." Medford Daily
Mercury, 1 February.
Atkinson, Roy
1967 "Middlesex Canal Trip a Test of Endurance." Boston
Sunday Herald, 8 January.
Britton, Sharon
1995 "Middlesex Canal's History Still Runs Deep in Woburn." The
Boston Globe, 23 April.
Condon, Henry
1980 "The Middlesex Canal." Medford Mercury, 3
September.
Dame, Lorin
1962 [2-part article on Middlesex Canal]. Royal House Reporter,
April and July.
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1998 [article on Middlesex Canal]. Medford Historical Register,
April.
Doyle, Laura
1995 "Chelmsford Toll House Gets New Life." The Sun, 3
July.
Hyde, Fred G.
1934 "Old Middlesex Canal Was Empire's Dream." Lowell Sunday,
30 March.
Ingraham, Alec
1995 "Shawsheen Aqueduct: A Local Landmark." Billerica
Minuteman, 13 July.
Laidler, John
1997 "Dream of Canal Restoration Nears Reality." The Boston
Globe, 17 August.
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1998 "New Grant Boosts Canal Project." The Boston Sunday
Globe, 25 January.
Lovering, Frank W.
1966 "Middlesex Canal Called 'Highway of Waters'." Lewiston
Journal Magazine Section, 8 January.
Mahoney, Joan
1972 "The Incredible Ditch." The Boston Sunday Globe, 23
April:10-16.
Ristino, Kristen
1995 "The Canal That Once Was King." Lowell Sunday, 2
November.
Periodicals and Journals
Anonymous
1909 "A Pioneer Railroad and How It Was Built." Medford
Historical Register,12 July.
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1909 "Wood's Dam and the Mill beyond the Mystic." Medford
Historical Register, 12 January .
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1920 "Medford Branch Canal." The Medford Historical Register,
23(2):24-31.
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1926 "Memorial Service to Hon. Samuel P. Hadley, Late President of
the Society." Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society, Vol.
11, No. 3,
Baldwin, Loammi
1785 "An Account of a Very Curious Appearance of the Electrical
Fluid Produced by Raising an Electrical Kite in the Time of a Thunder
Shower." Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1.
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
1905 Publications, Vol. V11. Cambridge, MA.
Dame, Lorin L.
1884 "The Middlesex Canal." The Bay State Monthly,
November, Vol. II, No. II.
Dickson, Brenton H.
1968 "Comparison of the Blackstone and Middlesex Canals." Old-Time
New England, Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England
Antiquities, Vol. 58, No. 4, April-June.
Durivage, Francis A.
1855 "The Middlesex Canal." Ballou's Pictorial Drawing Room
Companion, 15 September.
Edes, Henry Herbert
1905 "An Excursion on the Middlesex Canal in 1817." The
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. VII.
Fitzsimons, Neal.
1967 "William Weston: The Seven American Years." Civil
Engineering-ASCE, October.
1967 "The Old Middlesex Canal: Civil Engineering Landmark." Civil Engineering-ASCE, August.
Hadley, Samuel P.
1911 "Boyhood, Reminiscences of Middlesex Village." Contributions
of the Lowell Historical. Society, Vol. 1, No. 2.
Hill, Mabel
n.d. "The Old Middlesex Canal." Lowell Book.
Hopkins, Arthur T.
1898 "The Old Middlesex Canal." The New England Magazine,
January, Vol. XVII, No. 5.
Mann, Moses Witcher.
n.d. "The Middlesex Canal: An Eighteenth Century Enterprise." Medford
Historical Register, Vol. VII.
Middlesex Canal Association
n.d. Towpath Topics. Middlesex Canal Association.
Middlesex Canal Corporation
1830 "Regulations Relative to the Navigation of the Middlesex
Canal." Mechanicks Magazine.
Pressey, Park.
1956 "Old New England Canals." Old-Time New England,
S.P.N.E.A. Bulletin, Vol. 45, No. 4, Serial No. 164.
Proctor, Thomas C.
1984 "The Middlesex Canal: Prototype for American Canal
Building." Canal History and Technology Proceedings 7:125-174.
Stark, George
1886 "Navigation of the Merrimack River." Old Residents
Historical Association, 111.
Maps and Atlases
The American Society of Civil Engineers
1967 Middlesex Canal, 1793-1853. Middlesex Canal Association.
Anonymous
1868 City of Charlestown. Published by Sampson, Davenport &
Co.
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1898 Middlesex Canal within the Limits of Medford. From the
original plan of George R. Baldwin.
Baldwin
1795 Field Survey Book. Collection of the Baker Business Library
Archives, Boston, MA.
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1829 Field Survey Book. Collection of the Baker Business Library
Archives, Boston, MA.
Baldwin, George
1829 Plans of the Middlesex Canal. Located at the Massachusetts
Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
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1830 Profile of the Middlesex Canal.
Baldwin, James
1829 Middlesex Canal Survey Map. Copy located at Massachusetts
Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
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1836 A Plan and Profile of the Boston and Lowell Railroad (and the
Middlesex Canal). Boston, MA.
Baldwin, Loammi
1880 Sections of the Middlesex Canal.
Condon, Henry S.
1980 Map of Medford Massachusetts Showing the Former Middlesex Canal
1793-1853. Published in Medford Daily Mercury 3 September.
Eddy, R.H.
1844 Plan of Horn Pound Estate, Woburn, October 15.
Hadley, Judge
1911 Map of Middlesex Village. Copied by Leon Cutler, 1931.
Middlesex Canal Association
Middlesex Canal Maps. Various dates.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds.
1840 Plan of Canal from Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Plan Book 20,
Plan 2.
Works Progress Administration
1934 Tracing of the Middlesex Canal Route. Located at the
Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
MHC - Massachusetts Historical Commission
MCA - Middlesex Canal Association
MCC - Middlesex Canal Commission
PJMCC - Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center/ Center for Lowell History
Material on the Middlesex Canal is located in the following collections:
Records of the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal. In custody of the Middlesex Canal Association at the Lowell Technological Institute, Lowell, MA
Archives of the Middlesex Canal Association. On deposit at the Lowell Technological Institute, Lowell, MA
Baldwin Papers. Manuscript Division of the Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Boston, MA
Baldwin Papers, Clement Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Baldwin Papers, Essex Institute, Salem, MA
Frothingharn Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
Lowell Historical Society Collection, Lowell Technological Institute, Lowell, MA
Massachusetts Archives, State House, Boston, MA
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Billerica Historical Society, Billerica, MA
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
Bostonian Society, Old State House, Boston, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Boston University Libraries, Boston, MA
Chelmsford Historical Society, Chelmsford, MA
Harvard University Libraries, Cambridge, MA
Lowell Historical Society, Lowell, MA
Lowell Public Library, Lowell, MA
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
Massachusetts State Library, Boston, MA
Rumford Historical Association, North Woburn, MA
Tufts University Library, Medford, MA
Woburn Public Library, Woburn, MA
The Library of Loammi Baldwin is in the Rare Book Collection of the Humanities Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Last updated February 17, 2007