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Courtesy Center for Lowell History |
In the early 1800s plans were being made to build the textile mills in Lowell. To accomplish this, goods and materials from Boston were needed in Lowell, as well as a steady supply of workers for the mills that will eventually be built. The Middlesex Canal provided that transportation connection between Boston and Lowell. | |
| When completed the canal was over twenty-seven miles long, thirty feet wide and three feet deep with twenty locks, 48 bridges and eight aqueducts. On one side was a ten-foot wide towing path and on the opposite side was a five-foot wide retaining wall. | ||
| For 50 years, the Middlesex Canal provided transportation for people and goods between Charlestown and Middlesex Village (Lowell). It successfully linked Boston Harbor with the Merrimack River and allowed for traffic from the capital of Massachusetts all the way to the Concord, the capital of New Hampshire. Although it was not the first American canal to be completed, many advances in engineering technology were advanced in its construction. | ||
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