Pawtucket Canal
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pawtucket-canal-259-4101252
title:
Pawtucket Canal
text:
Completed in 1796, the Pawtucket Canal was originally built as a transportation canal to circumvent the Pawtucket Falls of the Merrimack River in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts. In the early 1820s it became a major component of the Lowell power canal system. with the founding of the textile industry at what became Lowell. The Pawtucket Falls are a mile long series of falls and rapids over which the Merrimack River drops 32 feet. The falls hampered the shipment of inland goods, mostly lumber, to
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Canal in Massachusetts, US
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawtucket_Canal
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date modified:
2021-07-08T06:18:56Z
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