Bostonist: Historical Marker Mania: Volume 2

Peter Lambert

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:52:23 -0500

Some of the "other goods" transported from Concord, NH to Boston was granite from the Concord quarries. Some of this was used to build Quincy Market. Just thought you'd be interested..

Josh

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:56:36 -0500

Right you are, Ron. Sorry - imaginative nerd that I am, I kept superimposing the picture of a canal full of barges towed by draft horses on my modern-day picture of the world, so I was thinking about Lowell even though it hadn't been invented yet.

Ron Newman

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:32:49 -0500

The city of Lowell, and its industries, had not yet been established when the Middlesex Canal was conceived and built. The canal ended at a point on the Merrimack River that is now part of Lowell, but was then a part of Chelmsford called 'Middlesex Village'.