Merrimack Sentence Examples

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  • The power gained from the Pawtucket Falls in the Merrimack river has long been found insufficient for these.

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  • He was on Governer John Letcher's advisory committee of three voting to raise the Merrimack and he became the head of coast, harbour and river defences.

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  • Catholic Charities of Boston is holding a few Christmas galas, a Laboure Christmas House tour, a Merrimack Valley Christmas House tour, and a Christmas Toy Party.

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  • The opportunity for developing water-power by the purchase of the canal around Pawtucket Falls (chartered for navigation in 1792) led them to choose the adjacent village of East Chelmsford as the site of their projected cotton mills; they bought the Pawtucket canal, and incorporated in 1822 the Merrimack Manufacturing Company; in 1823 the first cloth was actually made, and in 1826 a separate township was formed from part of Chelmsford and was named in honour of Francis Cabot Lowell, who with Jackson had improved Cartwright's power loom, and had planned the mills at Waltham.

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