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The Wachusett Aqueduct is carried over at least one bridge, and a number of bridges carrying roads (or former roads) over the aqueduct's open channel are contributing structures to its listing on the National Register. The pictured bridge carries Deerfoot Road over the open channel. Walden Street Cattle Pass: 1857, 1869 1994-06-03 Cambridge
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 192 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) within its borders. This is the second highest statewide total in the United States after New York, which has more than 250. Of the Massachusetts NHLs, 57 are in the state capital of Boston, and are listed separately. Ten of the remaining 134 designations ...
Lexington is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown Boston.The population was 34,454 as of the 2020 census. [1]
March 9, 1990 (1303 Massachusetts Ave. 9: M.H. Merriam and Company: M.H. Merriam and Company: February 18, 2009 (7–9 Oakland St. 10: Metropolitan State Hospital
Below is a list of covered bridges in Massachusetts. As of 2003 [update] , there were twelve authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Massachusetts of which seven are historic. [ 1 ] : 60 A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction.
The Middlesex Canal was a 27-mile (44-kilometer) barge canal connecting the Merrimack River with the port of Boston.When operational it was 30 feet (9.1 m) wide, and 3 feet (0.9 m) deep, with 20 locks, each 80 feet (24 m) long and between 10 and 11 feet (3.0 and 3.4 m) wide.
The bridge over Canal Street was replaced in 1917. The viaduct is one of the largest of the state's 19th-century masonry bridge structures, second in size only to the Canton Viaduct . [ 2 ] In the late 1960s, floodwaters washed away an abutment of the adjoining trestle to the east, ending service over the viaduct.
The bridge was built in 1886, and is managed by a joint committee of the two towns. [3] It is one of a small number of 19th-century covered bridges that remain in the state. [2] The bridge notably survived a major flooding event in the 1930s, when the textile mills in Gilbertville were destroyed.