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Pawtucket Canal, Swamp Locks, Pawtucket & Merrimack Canals, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA
- Title: Pawtucket Canal, Swamp Locks, Pawtucket & Merrimack Canals, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA
- Other Title: Pawtucket & Merrimack Canals
- Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
- Related Names:
Proprietors of the Locks & Canals on the Merrimack River
Jackson, Jonathan
Clark, Thomas
Boott, Kirk
Merrimack Manufacturing Company
Jackson, Patrick Tracy
Francis, James B
Appleton Manufacturing Company
Lowell Manufacturing Company
Griffin, Douglas L , project manager
Comp, T Allan , project manager
Malone, Patrick M , project manager
Parrott, Charles A , project manager
Lowell City Development Authority , sponsor
Proprietors of Locks & Canals on Merrimack River , sponsor
Human Services Corporation of Lowell , sponsor
Lowell Historical Society , sponsor
Historical Commission of the City of Lowell , sponsor
Hawley, Monica E , transmitter
Ansteth, W Richard , photographer
Boucher, Jack , photographer
Hyde, Charles K , historian
Scurci, Louis R , delineator
Ventsch, Leslie R , delineator
Conner, Michael F , delineator
Ansteth, W Richard , delineator
Berg, Jeffrey T , delineator
Cannon, David D , delineator
Howland, Mark M , delineator - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
- Medium:
Photo(s): 20
Measured Drawing(s): 6
Data Page(s): 3
Photo Caption Page(s): 2 - Reproduction Number: ---
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- Call Number: HAER MASS,9-LOW,9B-
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Significance: The Swamp Locks complex consists of a flight of two navigation locks with a dam at the west end of the upper lock. The original locks opened in 1797, and were rebuilt in 1822-1823 when this configuration was basically achieved. Remains of the 1822-1823 work are the rubble stonework of the south wasteway wall and the 25 foot wide portion of the lower lock chamber. Extant physical works date mostly from 1840-1841, when the dam was rebuilt with a straight sloped apron, which is still evident south of the sluiceway. In addition, the locks were narrowed from 25 feet to 12 feet between 1939 and 1841. The lock walls around the three gate pockets were constructed of ashlar masonry, and the remaining chamber walls reconstructed in wood, all within the existing rubble locks. The walls of the upper chamber were rebuilt in stone masonry to the 12 foot width in 1892. The wooden sides of the lower chamber no longer remain. There have been other additions and modifications subsequently. The protective light frame house has been atop the flashboard crest of the dam and over the sluiceway since 1859. Flashboard weirs and sluice gates have been periodically renewed, and sluice gate operating machinery was installed in the late 19th century. The ramp into the upper Pawtucket Canal was built in 1891, while the one into the lower Pawtucket Canal from the industrial bridge was built in 1896. The sluiceway around the south end of the dam, its gate, and operational machinery were completed in 1928. The frame building now sheltering this machinery was built in the late 19th century as a tool house and has occupied several slightly different sites. Concrete was used to rebuild the north wall of the wasteway in 1942, and the apron on the north part of the dam in 1946. The apron on the south part was then faced with concrete. The north section of the dam house was demolished and flashboard weirs replaced in 1972.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4
- Survey number: HAER MA-2-B
- Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1822- 1823 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1839-1841 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1859 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1891-1892 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1896 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1928 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1942 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1946 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 42.63333, -71.31667
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HAER MASS,9-LOW,9B-
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Measured Drawing(s): 6
Data Page(s): 3
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
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