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    Completed in 1796, the Pawtucket Canal was originally built as a transportation canal to circumvent the Pawtucket Falls of the Merrimack River in East...
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  • Pawtucket may refer to: Pawtucket, Rhode Island Pawtucket Falls (Massachusetts), Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell Power Canal System and Pawtucket Gatehouse...
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    begun in the 1790s, beginning its life as a transportation canal called the Pawtucket Canal, which was constructed to get logs from New Hampshire down...
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    necessitated the construction of the Pawtucket Canal in the last decade of the 18th century. In the 1820s, the falls, the canal, and the hydropower they provided...
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  • Joshua Carter. The company was founded to construct the Pawtucket Canal around the Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack River, in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts...
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    Contra Costa Canal Corning Canal Delta–Mendota Canal Eastside Canal Folsom South Canal Friant-Kern Canal Glenn Colusa Canal Inter-California Canal Kern Island...
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    business at the Pawtucket Canal, a transit canal opened in the 1790s which bypassed the Pawtucket Falls just downstream from the Middlesex Canal's northern end...
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    The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic...
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    The Merrimack Canal is a power canal in Lowell, Massachusetts. The canal, dug in the 1820s, begins at the Pawtucket Canal just above Swamp Locks, and...
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    already existent Pawtucket Canal, designed for transportation around the Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack, became the feeder canal for a 5.6-mile long...
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