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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 16 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 14 0 Browse Search
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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge town, 1750-1846. (search)
velopment of the region near the foot of Main Street, by the construction through the intervening marsh between the river and dry land, of a main canal known as Broad Canal, which was also connected with Miller's River by another running north from it. The West Dock Canal, which was also connected with Broad Canal, was so constructBroad Canal, was so constructed as to furnish a place for loading and discharging vessels in the area now surrounded by Portland and Bristol streets, Webster Avenue, and Hampshire Street. The South Dock Canal was a similar construction near the junction of Main, Harvard, and Sixth streets, and was connected with Broad by Cross Canal, and had also a separate outlet to the river. The only existing reminder of this attempt to utilize our water front is Broad Canal itself, which is still used. In 1830, an attempt to inclose the common lands of the town and convert them into a park met decided opposition from those who were interested in the Craigie Bridge, because it would divert the C
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The Cambridge littoral. (search)
of solving the utilitarian problems in this section. The Cambridge Improvement Company was thus formed, and became possessed of between fifty and sixty acres of lowlands, mostly flats, between Third Street and the river. The interposition of Broad Canal between these lands and Main Street, always a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to the use of these lands, effectually closed them from advantageous connection with Boston. With the aid of the authorities of the municipality, this barrier waster front, half a mile in length, lying between the canal and either bridge. The effort to recover this land was at once renewed, and this time with effect. First Street was at once filled, from its terminus at Binney Street to the line of Broad Canal, a thousand feet in length, and the sea-wall along the river extended easterly. By a wise cooperation of the city authorities and the courageous investor, the Broad Canal was at length bridged, and entrance gained to Main Street at its juncti
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Real-estate interests of Cambridge. (search)
ment this was especially true. For more than a century and a half, we learn from Paige's history, that part of the town lying eastwardly from Quincy and Bow streets, generally called The Neck, consisted of woodland, pasturage, swamps, and salt marsh. To overcome the natural disadvantages of grade under which the city suffered, the filling of a large section was necessary, including the channels formerly constructed for the passage of vessels, leaving only for such purpose the so-called Broad Canal, which affords access to many coal and lumber yards. The several legislative acts were approved as follows: That relating to the Washington Street district in 1869, to the Franklin and Sparks Streets district in 1872, and to the Miller River district in 1873. Under the provisions of these acts much land was surrendered to the city by the owners, and was later sold at about thirty per cent of its cost. In addition to the freight facilities afforded by the navigable river, the Boston a
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
10, 395; Harvard, 4, 106, 108; Craigie, 29, 30; Prison Point, 29; River Street, 29; Western Avenue, 29. Bridges, streets tributary to, 20. Brighton (Third Parish, Little Cambridge), 9, 16, 236; annexed to Boston, 9. See Third Parish. Broad Canal, 30, 31, 109, 110, 127. Broadway (Clark Road), 37. Broadway Common, 121, 138. Brooks, Phillips, 163, 255. Browne and Nichols school for boys, 212-214. Bryce, James, on American municipal government. 59. Buckingham, Joseph Tinkerrcing act passed, 107; the Harvard Bridge, 106, 108; the Park Commission created, 108; waste areas north of Main Street, 108; the last of the canals, 108, 109; the Binney fields, 109; Cambridge Wharf Company, 109; opening of First Street, 110; Broad Canal bridged, 110; importance of First Street, 110; a large summing up, 111. Cambridge Lodge of Odd Fellows, 286. Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 317. Cambridge National Bank, 307. Cambridge Parks, 119-125. Cambridge Platform ad
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 12: civil History. (search)
ese canals are described in an agreement, dated July 8, 1806, Broad Canal, at least, was projected as early as May 19, 1802, when Vose & M Mason, Jr., a right to use the Canal which is to be made, where Broad Canal now is. and recorded in the Middlesex Registry of Deeds, Book 17scription of the canals may be briefly condensed as follows:— Broad Canal, 80 feet wide, from low-water mark in Charles River to Portland e, through Portland Street under a bridge, from the main part of Broad Canal to that part called West Dock. Although scarcely a vestige ofwide, 180 feet easterly from Portland Street, and extending from Broad Canal to a point near the northerly line of the Bordman Farm. This caugh Miller's Creek or North River, so called, to North Canal and Broad Canal, and to extend North Canal, through land owned by the Corporatio, 30 feet apart, and running at a right angle with Broadway from Broad Canal, between lots 279 and 280, through Broadway, and between lots 26