Map of water privilege at Watertown Bridge.
Item Information
- Title:
- Map of water privilege at Watertown Bridge.
- Description:
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Shows the mill canals, the buildings built over the canal, and the buildings along the streets bordering the Charles River. It shows 2 paper mills and the Robbins Soap Works. The street is called Back Street but the name was changed to Pleasant Street. It starts at the dam and goes to the east past the Galen Street Bridge. "This privilege is used for the purpose of manufacturing paper. There are two mills or rather two double mills now in operation; the first at No.1 where the water is drawn from the Canal through two different flumes to operate on two wheels and the waste there from carried by a raceway into the river. The second mills are at No. 2 where there are also two sets of machinery put into operation by two water wheels and the water as in the first instance is taken from the Canal and the waste conducted into the river below. There is a small quantity of water when the River is full, allowed to be drawn at the points a and b. The first to operate on a Turner's wheel and the latter for grinding bark but this is altogether by suffrage and at times only when the water flows over the dam. The whole head and fall at the time of this survey was 8 feet 7 inches. Oct. 10, 1828. Scale 60 feet to an inch. Original drawn by J. Roby Mar. 1829."
- Format:
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Photographs
- Location:
- Watertown Free Public Library
- Collection (local):
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Watertown Charles River
- Subjects:
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Charles River--Watertown (Mass.)
Waterways--Massachusetts
Businesses--Watertown (Mass.)
Maps--Watertown (Mass.)
- Places:
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Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Watertown
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rv0432972
- Terms of Use:
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- Identifier:
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figure 1400
