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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 8 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 4 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)
d, 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 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 Concord Turnpike from direct connection with Cambridge Street. This opposition was seconded by the cattle-drivers, who wished to make
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)
. Continental Army on Cambridge Common, 49. Cooke, Prof. J. P., 76. Correctors of the press, 69. Cotton, John, 6, 7. Council of Assistants, 5, 23. County buildings, in East Cambridge, 30; exempt from taxation, 320. Court-house, site of, 5; used as a townhouse, 5; the new, 16; inadequate for town meetings, 31. Cox, James, publisher of the Cambridge Press, 221; the Nestor of Cambridge journalism, 222. Craigie Bridge, 29, 30. Craigie House (Longfellow House), 69. Cross Canal, 30. Dame schools, 189. Dana, Richard Henry, 35, 269. Dana Street, dividing line between Cambridgeport and Old Cambridge, 398. Danforth, Samuel, appointed mandamus councilor, 23; determines not to serve, 23. Danforth, Thomas, deputy-governor, 11; Benanuel Bowers's verses to, 12. Davenport, Charles, car-builder, 321. Daye, Stephen, sets up the first printingpress, 8; works printed by, 8; all employee of President Dunster, 333; not a successful printer, 333; becomes a rea
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 12: civil History. (search)
n was to have the right to pass through the said canals to Charles River, so long as the canals should remain open. Cross Canal, bounded by two straight lines, 30 feet apart, and running at a right angle with Broadway from Broad Canal, between loay, and between lots 263 and 264 to South Dock. South Dock, bounded by a line commencing at the southeast corner of Cross Canal, thence running southeasterly 53 feet; thence southwesterly, parallel with the line of Cross Canal to a point 10 feet Cross Canal to a point 10 feet distant from land of the Proprietors of West Boston Bridge; thence westerly, at the same distance from said Proprietors' land, to lot 215: thence northerly, at a right angle with the causeway of West Boston Bridge, 81 feet; thence northwesterly, 98 lot 262; thence, on said lot 262, 67 feet, to lot 263; thence southerly and easterly on said lot 263, 54 feet, and on Cross Canal, 30 feet, to the point of beginning. This dock was connected with Charles River by a creek, over which was the bridge