All posts tagged "canals"
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6.8KBusiness and LaborMother Brook Canal: Still Useful After All These Years
On March 25, 1639, Massachusetts Bay Colony Gov. John Winthrop approved the first manmade canal in the British colonies. The colonists dug...
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21.5K16Business and LaborThe Middlesex Canal, New England’s Incredible Ditch
The Middlesex Canal, now largely forgotten, was a 27-mile waterway that drove the industrialization of the Merrimack Valley for 50 years starting...
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13.6K7Business and LaborEzekiel Straw, The Good Boss of the Amoskeag Millyard
Ezekiel Straw was an unusual mill agent – unusual in a good way. He led the growth of the Amoskeag Millyard and...
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12.3K11Business and LaborThe Winnipesaukee Water War and the 1859 Fight for NH Property Rights
On Sept 28, 1859, James Worster led 50 angry farmers, mill operators, loggers and laborers in a vain effort to destroy a...
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