File:1846 sketch of proposed canal from Pawtucket Dam to Western Canal; Lowell, MA.tiff

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Sketch of the Proposed Canal from Pawtucket Dam to Western Canal
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English: Photocopy of a drawing, (original in the Collection of the PLandC, Shelf 114, Drawing 3) SKETCH OF PROPOSED CANAL FROM PAWTUCKET DAM TO WESTERN CANAL, JANUARY 1846 - Northern Canal, Pawtucket and Ford Streets vicinity, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA. Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on the Merrimack River; Francis, James B; Hawley, Monica E, transmitter; Malone, Patrick M, historian; Boucher, Jack, photographer
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA loc.gov/pictures/item/ma0547.photos.080542p
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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Date depicted
Map location Massachusetts; Middlesex County; Lowell
Scale 1:1200
Bounding box
N: 42.6583449°N
W: 71.338659°W E: 71.312516°W
S: 42.646937°N
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 Archival data
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HAER MASS,9-LOW,15-2
Dimensions height: 29 in (73.6 cm); width: 52 in (132 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,29U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,52U218593
Notes
  • Significance: The Northern Canal was constructed to bring more water into the canal system in order that the demands for power made by increasingly large mills could be met. The Northern Canal supplemented the Pawtucket Canal as a feeder to the system.
  • Survey number: HAER MA-8
  • Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction

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