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Chelmsford, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Mystic River (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Middlesex Canal (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Spot Pond (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
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Medford (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
The Mystic water-works.
THESE water-works are those built a half century ago by the (then) city of Charlestown for its own supply, and located mainly within, and traversing the entire length of, Medford.
The Register has already described a portion and, as then intimated, now completes the story.
The Mystic lakes of today, with their surroundings, would have an unfamiliar look to Medford people of sixty years agone.
There was then really but one, and that was known as Medford pond, though the Narrows, or Partings, did all nature could to make two of it.
The city of Charlestown, in its quest of a water supply, took it over, and then were begun, in 1862, the changes that resulted in the two lakes of the present time.
At that time the shores of the pond were well wooded, and the white oaks there growing were utilized for the piles, that were driven fourteen feet and cut off level three feet below the surface of the ground.
Upon these the masonry of the dam was built, wh
James McDonald (search for this): chapter 10