"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . ve the falls. Traces of the feeder canal can now be seen be-tween the railroad and the river, and in places the mason workwhere the gates were built is vet visible. CHAPTER XIII INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS—RAILROADS The first effective act to incorporate a railroad company,whose line of road should pass through Hampden county, wasadopted by the legislature March 15, 1833, when Nathan Hale,David Henshaw, George Bond, Henry Williams, Daniel Dewey,Joshua Clapp and Eliphalet Williams were granted a charterunder the name of the W
"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . ve the falls. Traces of the feeder canal can now be seen be-tween the railroad and the river, and in places the mason workwhere the gates were built is vet visible. CHAPTER XIII INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS—RAILROADS The first effective act to incorporate a railroad company,whose line of road should pass through Hampden county, wasadopted by the legislature March 15, 1833, when Nathan Hale,David Henshaw, George Bond, Henry Williams, Daniel Dewey,Joshua Clapp and Eliphalet Williams were granted a charterunder the name of the Western railroad corporation, for the pur-pose of constructing and operating a railroad from the westernterminus of the Boston and Worcester road, at Worcester, to theNew York state line on the western border of capital stock of the company at first was limited to $2,000,-000, and was taken by more than 2,200 subscribers. The com-pany, however, was not fully organized until January, 1836,when the following board of directors was chosen: John B. ( 175 ). CQ EAlLliOADS Wales, Edniinid Uwiglit, George Bliss, William Lawrence,Henry Kice, John Henshaw, Francis Jackson, Josiali Quincy,jr., and Justice Willard, For more than forty years previous to this act of incorpora-tion the capitalists of eastern Massachusetts had been lookinganxiously for more direct and rapid means of communicationwith the western portion of the state than Avas afforded by thetransportation wagons and stages doing business on the estab-lished turnpike roads, and as early as 1792 the Proprietors ofthe Massachusetts Canal were incorporated for the purpose ofconstructing a canal across the state from east to west; and tothis end surveys, maps and estimates were made, but beyondthese preliminary proceedings nothing was accomplished. Afterthis much had been done, the subject of a canal was one of dis-cussion only until 1825, Avhen Governor Eustis recommended theappointment of three commissioners t
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