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A Bicentennial Inventory of America's Historic Canal Resources A Bicentennial Inventory of America's Historic Canal Resources Published by the American Canal Society, 117 Main St., Freemansburg, PA 18017 DRAFT New England January, 2011 HISTORIC CANALS OF NEW ENGLAND chart by Bill Gerber ACS Best of American Other Sources of STATE/Canal Name Index Canals # - page Information (List) Sheet? CONNECTICUT Enfield (Windsor Locks) x Howes Folly x New Haven & Northampton x #2-13, #3-7/8, #4-7 (Farmington (CT), Hampshire & Hampden (MA)) Shelton #2-30 RHODE ISLAND Blackstone x #1-15, #3-3 Mouscochuck x MASSACHUSETTS Cambridge Canals Broad Canal Lechmere Canal Portland Canal South Canal Cut River x #3-3 Yankee 3/66 Jeremiah's Gutter x Orleans History South Hadley HS South Hadley Falls (Inclined Plane) x #1-8, #4-27 pamphlet Merrimack River Wickassee Lawrence. Pawtucket x #1-11 Lawrence, North Canal x Middlesex x #3-5/6, #4-7, #5-17 Lawrence, Brown, Clark, MCA, Lawson, Hoxie, Roberts, VerPlanck Mill Creek Canal (Boston) x Roxbury Mother Brook x Hampshire & Hampden (Farmington) x #2-14.... Blackstone x #1-15, #3-3 Barber Wankinco River x Fox Creek x #1-11 Industrial Canals of Lowell x #1-11, #3-14, #4-6 Industrial Canals of Lawrence Blynman x NOS Chart Cape Cod x #3-13 NOS Chart, CE bro Charles River x Visitor's Center Mystic River (Amelia Earhart Locks) x Turners Falls VERMONT Bellows Falls #3-4 NEW HAMPSHIRE Merrimack River Sewall's Falls (Above Concord) (Later site of power dam, now No Roberts breached) Bow (Garvin's Falls) (now power Lawrence, Mower, x dam) Gerber Hookset (now power dam) Lawrence, Mower, Gerber, Repair survey Lawrence, Mower, Amoskeag (Blodgets) x #2-12.. Gerber Merrills Falls (at Granite St. Lawrence, Mower, bridge) Gerber, Plot plan Lawrence, Mower, Griffin's Falls Gerber Lawrence, Mower, Short's Falls (at I-293 bridge) x Gerber Lawrence, Mower, Goff's Falls (at RR bridge) Gerber Lawrence, Mower, Cohas Falls (Coos Falls) x Gerber Lawrence, Mower, Moor's Falls Gerber Lawrence, Mower, Cromwells Falls x #2-29 Gerber Nashua Boat Company Canal (Nashua Lawrence, Mower, x Mfg. Co) Gerber NHS brochure, Plot Mine Falls Power Canal plan Industrial Canals of Manchester Plot plan Industrial Canals of Concord MAINE Knox & Georges River x #1-16 Anderson. New Meadow's (Peterson's) #2-11 Anderson, 1911 News Mousam River Channels Anderson. Saco River Moose Anderson. Hancock Anderson. Burnt Meadow Anderson. Ten Mile Anderson. Freyburg Anderson. Cumberland & Oxford x #1-12, #4-22 Anderson. Kennebec River Seeboomook Anderson. Augusta Anderson. Piscataquis Anderson. Passamaquoddy x Telos x Anderson. Stillwater Anderson. Penobscot Anderson. Note: Articles noted as appearing in Best of American Canals also appeared in American Canals BIBLIOGRAPHY Clarke, Mary Stetson, The Old Middlesex Canal, Center for Canal History and Technology, Easton, PA , 1974, 194 pages, ISBN 0-930973-06-2 Farson, Robert H., The Cape Cod Canal, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 1977, 177 pages, ISBN 0-8195-5012-4 and 0-8195-6050-2 pbk. Kelley, Shawnie M., It Happened on Cape Cod, Morris Book Publishing, 2006, pages 42-44, ISBN 0- 7627-3824-3 Lewis, Edward A., The Blackstone Valley Line, The Baggage Car, Seekonk, MA, 1973, 80 pages Lawrence, Lewis M., The Middlesex Canal, a 1942 manuscript of 148 pages printed in 1999 by the Middlesex Canal Association Roberts, Christopher, The Middlesex Canal, 1793-1860, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1938, 252 pages (available as a reprint from University Microfilms) Seaberg, Carl, Alan Seaberg, Thomas Dahill, The Incredible Ditch, Anne Miniver Press,1997,138 pages, ISBN 0-9625794-8-3 VerPlanck, Burt, Middlesex Canal, Guide and Maps, Middlesex Canal Association, Billerica, MA, 1996 Revised 1/4/11 .
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