North River Documents
1870 Report with Proposal to Dam North River
Fifth Annual Report of the Board of the Harbor Commissioners (1870) (Boston: Board of Harbor Commissioners, 1871) (“1870 report”), 19-27, State Library of Massachusetts, https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/items/39376f05-1bb4-4239-b05e-bb9cee156c23, URI http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/756651. Or go to https://archives.lib.state.ma.us and search the repository entering title of document.
1871 Objections
“Draining of North River,” Hingham Journal, April 14, 1871, 2, available from Hingham Public Library website, https://www.hinghamlibrary.org/.
Transcript, 20 KB (small), Word, here
1872 Herschel Plan to Dam North River & Drain Marshes
Clemens Herschel, Civil Engineer, "To the Town of South Scituate, Thomas J. Tolman, and others, owners of North River Marshes," letter, 15 June 1872;
on file, Scituate Historical Society, with copy on file with Norwell Historical Society (Cap'n Bill Vinal files)
Scan (edited), 19 MB, PDF, missing page 7 (numbered pages), here
Transcript, 24 KB (small), Word, here
1915 Report
“1915 House Bill 1850. Report Relative To The Improvement Of Salem Harbor, North River, Wellfleet Harbor, Edgartown Harbor And Wareham River, And To Building A Breakwater In Provincetown Harbor.” (Boston: Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, 1915), 7-15, https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/396171/ocm39986872-1915-HB-1850.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y; in collection with permanent URI, https://hdl.handle.net/2452/393354.
