Folder Fish Passage on the Merrimack River. Folder contains study titled “Fish Passage Facilities Design Parameters for Merrimack River Dams: Essex Dam, Lawrence , Massachusetts and Pawtucket Dam, Lowell, Massachusetts” by P.J. Dalley, Hydraulic Engineer, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Boston, Massachusetts, January, 1975. Also contains Lawrence Eagle Tribune article “Going Up: Fish Get a Lift on the Merrimack” dated May 16, 1985. Pictured are Matthew Pride and Stephen Henry.
Folder “Protest of the Essex Company Against Legislation Making the Owner of a Dam Responsible for Accidents Over It” (5 copies) (85.72.12/87.88.54/88.02.74A/88.02.74B)
Folder Great Stone Dam Newspaper Articles and Pictures. Folder contains the following newspaper articles: “Work on Dam Started 75 Years Ago Sunday”, Lawrence Telegram, July 31, 1920; “It All Began With The Great Dam”, Lawrence Eagle Tribune, June 16, 1979; “Generating a Better Life for Future Generations”, Lawrence Eagle Tribune, June 16, 1979; “The Lawrence Dam: The Year and the Day Point To It” (unknown newspaper and date); “Bill For Safeguard at the Dam” (unknown newspaper and date); “The Dam and The Fishway” (unknown newspaper and date); “Before the Beginning” (unknown newspaper and date) as well as photographs of the dam.
Folder "The Story of Pelham, NH Granite" copyright Gene White, October 2024. This essay explores where the granite from Pelham, NH's quarries was used in Lawrence, MA; Methuen, MA; Salem, NH; and Windham, NH. Places include Lawrence's Great Stone Dam, canal walls, and some of the mills. See accompanying forged iron plug and feather devices in artifact collection (2024.068)
Folder Lawrence Hydroelectric Project Open House
Folder Essex Dam, Lawrence, Mass. Schematic Plan of Vertical Slot Type Fishway
Folder “Harnessing the River – Can It Work” by Deborah Cramer
Folder “An Act for The Preservation of Fish in Merrimack River” petition dated June 6, 1856
Folder Fish Rights. Folder contains two newspaper articles: “The Fish Rights on the Merrimack”, Lawrence Courier dated February 15, 1856 and “It Can be Done”, True American dated February 16, 1856.
Folder Massachusetts Legislature – Senate Doc. 174, Fish Rights, Essex Company, April 25, 1857
Folder Purchase of Fishing Rights by the Essex Company from Samuel Worcester, 1848
Folder Regulations – Leasing of Room and Power on the South Canal, September 10, 1872
Folder Essex Company Excess Use of Canal Water dated September 1, 1869 (2 copies) and November 1, 1869
Folder “What is Going on With Lawrence’s Canals?” Zine
Folder “Memoranda Relating to Essex Company’s Water Power in Relation to the Dam and Canals’ by Richard A. Hale, Essex Company
Folder ”Regulations for the use of Surplus Water Power at Lawrence, Massachusetts”
Folder Water Power Agreement forms, dated January 13, 1925 (2 copies)
Folder “An Act to Incorporate the Essex Company” Acts of 1845, Chapter 63
Folder Act of Incorporation of the Essex Company dated May 1, 1856
Folder ”An Act to Incorporate the Essex Company” dated 1845 (89.08.239)
Folder “Agreement of Essex Company Relative to Stock Option Agreement dated July 26, 1976
Folder Essex Company Petition dated January 18, 1845 (restricted document)
Folder Deed of sale to Daniel Saunders, Samuel Lawrence and John Nesmith
Folder Map of Original Land Purchase by Essex Company
Folder Deed from Jeremy Barker to Essex Company 1847 which includes past deals of said land tracing its ownership from 1724, as well as copy of 1629 deed selling land to settlers.
Folder Petition outlining the boundaries of the “New City”
Folder Lawrence Highlands/Lots of Land Auction Announcement
Folder Essex Company to Seneca Sargent 1895 Land Sale (83.65.3)
Folder “Small Mill Lots and Water Power” Auction notices dated July 15, 1858
Folder “Catalogue of 602 Lots of Land in Lawrence, Mass. To be Auctioned by the Essex Company” dated December 6, 1855 (2019.091.018)
Folder “Great Sale of Land by the Essex Company at Lawrence, Mass.” Dated December 6, 1855 (87.88.75)
Folder Essex Company Lawrence Charitable Activities
Folder “Statement of the Accounts of the Essex Company to March 31, 1853”
Folder Essex Annual Reports dated May 25, 1852 (3 copies) and May 29, 1860
Folder “Report Presented to the Stockholders of the Essex Company” dated May 29, 1860 (2015.007)
Folder Essex Company invoice from Post Office dated 1848
Folder 1968 Tax Evaluation Essex Company
Folder Essex Company Payroll Records from July/August 1845 (incomplete)
Folder “Annual Accounts of the Essex Company 1936” (91.07.446)
Folder Essex Company Audit Report by Amos D. Albee, Son & Co. CPA dated December 31, 1925
Folder Annual Stockholder Meeting announcement Essex Company/February 15, 1937 (91.07.445)
Folder Essex Company Tax Appeal Documents (87.52.15, 87.52.16, 87.52.17)
Folder Essex Company Notes (91.16.04)
Folder Suggested Dialogue for Tour of Essex Company Building”
Folder The Essex Company Immigrant City Archives renderings
Folder “Historic Treasures” Lawrence Eagle Tribune dated January 22, 1927, description of the Essex Company Building.
Folder Abbott Lawrence. Folder contains biographical information on Abbott Lawrence.
Folder Lawrence Quick Step, Dedicated to S. Abbott Lawrence and the members of the New England Guards
Folder Charles Storer Storrow. Folder contains biographical information on Charles Storer Storrow.
Folder Duncan S. MacKillop Obituary, Essex Company Manager
Folder James Magoon, Essex Company Gate Tender 1965-1972. Folder contains a copy of newspaper photograph of James Magoon, his obituary and a newspaper clipping from The Lawrence Eagle Tribune dated August 6, 1991 depicting a photograph of Paulina Magoon holding a photograph of her parents.
Folder Uriah A. Boyden. Folder contains biographical information on Uriah A. Boyden.
Folder Richard A. Hale. Folder contains biographical information on Richard A. Hale.
Folder James B. Francis. Folder contains biographical engineering on James B. Francis.
Folder Biographies and Obituaries. Folder contains information on Nathan Appleton, Patrick T. Jackson, William Lawrence and William Sturgis.
Folder Letter regarding Phineas Stevens’ Monument Repair dated February 18, 1955
Folder Letter to Alfred P. Sawyer, Esq. from Richard A. Hale regarding topics pertaining to Lowell mill/canal
Folder Letter to Duncan S. MacKillop of the Essex Company to Mr. (?) Vaughan dated October 27, 1975 regarding land sale to Grace Church
Folder Essex Company Correspondence – Copies of Varied Topics
Folder Essex Company Signs and Notices
Folder Essex Company Forms
Folder Stamp/Commemorative Cancellation depicting the Essex Company dated 1883 (2022.032)
Folder Essex Company Lumber Yard Form
Folder Essex Company, Essex Development stationary
Folder Essex Company stationary
Folder Essex Company Finding Aid (Drafts)
Folder Essex Company Structure Survey/Massachusetts Historical Commission
Folder “Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Winter 1989
Folder Identified Ice Tools
Folder Petition for 10 hour work day dated 1852(?)
Folder Street Plans
Folder Lawrence Machine Shop – Steam Engines
Folder “Proposed Power Development at Flood Control dam, Franklin Falls, NH, U.S. Engineers Report” dated 1943
Folder “The Dam”, Poem about the Dam (81.34.1)
Folder Essex Company photographs. Folder contains various copies of pictures pertaining to the Essex Company.
Folder Lawrence Reservoir Committee Notice dated April 27, 1877
Folder Farwell Mill Site Data from 1927-1953
Folder Pemberton Mill Sale dated 1940
Folder Immigrant City Newsletter dated September, 1993
Folder Robert Tewksbury Script
Folder Andover Bridge News Clippings (fragile)
Folder Methuen Water Rights
Folder Essex Company By-Laws (89.08.240)
Folder Description of the Incorporation of the Essex Company (89.08.241)
Folder Legislative Act Creating The Essex Company (89.08.242)
Folder Legislative Acts Affecting The Essex Company After 1845 (89.08.243)
Folder Description of Essex Company Indentures (89.08.244)
Folder Essex Company North and South Canal Millpower Agreements (89.08.245)
Folder Essex Company Surplus Water Power Agreements (89.08.246)
Folder Present Millpower Assignment to Applicant (89.08.247)
Folder Protection and Enhancement of Natural, Historic and Scenic Values (89.08.248)
Folder Correspondence with Massachusetts Historical Commission Regarding Relocation of the South Canal Gatehouse (89.08.249; 89.08.250)
Folder Exploring Canal Wall Construction; folder consisting of research and correspondence by Kathy Flynn and Amita Kiley to Chet Sidell and Brad Buschur regarding which Essex Company records pertain to the construction of the North and South Canals.