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Subject: MIDDLESEX CANAL - Winchester, MA Historical Society report!
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:03:00 EDT

The Winchester, MA Historical Society online at:

<A HREF="http://www.winchestermass.org/histsoc.html">Winchester Historical
Society Home Page</A>

has marvelous pages such as this one on the Middlesex Canal. Below are
clickables for maps of value! Another interesting fact is the waterway
wound between the Mystic marshes and the ten hills of the former
Governor Winthrop estate toward Medford Square. Not to mention the History
of
Winchester, MA!

http://www.winchestermass.org/canal.html


Middlesex Canal Map (ref.: The Old Middlesex Canal by Mary Stetson
Clarke)
Middlesex Canal Location Map (color; 162 kB) (ref.: Middlesex Canal
Guide and Maps by Warburton VerPlanck)
Middlesex Canal Map for Winchester (color; 186 kB) (ref.: Middlesex
Canal Guide and Maps by Warburton VerPlanck)
Aerial views of the canal path through Winchester (ref: The Incredible
Ditch, by Carl & Alan Seaburg)
Boston Globe article (7/3/99)


Swinging around the base of Mt. Benedict, or Ploughed Hill as it was
called in post-Revolutionary days, the canal turned toward the Mystic
River at a location now marked by a stone slab in Foss Park, Somerville,
then wound between the Mystic marshes and the ten hills of the former
Governor Winthrop estate toward Medford Square. Just below the Cradock
Bridge the canal was connected by the Medford Branch Canal with the
Mystic River, where the Medford shipyards were situated.

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