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Item Title
Western Canal, Pawtucket & Merrimack Canals, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA
LocationPawtucket & Merrimack Canals vicinity,
Lowell, MA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER MA-5
Building/structure dates:
1832 initial construction
Significance: The Western Canal was the only power canal in Lowell to be built on two levels, though the Pawtucket Canal also had an upper and a lower level. Construction on two levels meant that the same water could power more than one mill.
Subjects
CanalsLocks (hydraulic Facilities)Transportation
Related Names
Proprietors Of The Locks & Canals On The Merrimack
Moody , Paul
Boott, Kirk
Rand, Deacon
Cummisky, Hugh
Suffolk Manufacturing Company
Malone, Dr. Patrick M., Historian
Boucher, Jack, Photographer
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. Photocopy of a drawing (original in the Collection of the PL&C, Shelf 123, Drawing 2797)--ca. 1830--PROJECTED PLAN OF THE WESTERN AND LAWRENCE CANALS, MILLS, AND STREETS
2. Photocopy of a drawing (original in the Collection of the PL&C, Shelf 118, Drawing 265) SKETCH OF THE WESTERN CANAL WIDENED TO 60 FEET TOGETHER WITH THE FEEDER SUGGESTED IN MECHANICS STREET, SEPTEMBER 1855
3. GENERAL VIEW LOOKING NORTH SHOWING SECTION ONCE COVERED BY TREMONT MILLS (now demolished): Jack Boucher, Photographer 1976
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