Course of canal to Charlestown Millpond - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
Summary
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.)
Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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norman b leventhal map center collection
boston public library
norman b leventhal map center
landowners
massachusetts
middlesex canal
maps manuscript
middlesex canal mass
middlesex county
maps
atlases
english
loammi baldwin 1780 1838
charlestown millpond
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Date
1802
Source
Boston Public Library
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Public Domain