Shedd, Joel Herbert (sold)
Joel Herbert Shedd (May 31, 1834 - November 27, 1915) was an American civil engineer and surveyor. He was born in Middlesex, Massachusetts, and learned the surveyor's trade in a Boston office. He worked as a surveyor in conjunction with Charles S. Storrow. For much of his later career, he was City Engineer of Providence, Rhode Island, and was chairman of the Rhode Island Harbor Commission. In 1880, he became a founding member of the Providence Art Club and was a member of the advisory board of Brown University. He was broadly published; he was credited on several maps, but a wide array of reports of a technical nature on sewerage and drainage. He also applied his skills on a smaller scale, co-authoring an 1859 'Suggestions on landscape gardening.'
Inundated Meadowlands of the Concord River.
Plan of Concord and Sudbury Rivers, with the Meadows Adjoining. 1861. (with) Profile of the Concord and Sudbury Rivers 1861.
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This is J. H. Bufford's 1861 map of the Concord, Sudbury, and Assabet Rivers in Massachusetts, drawn from surveys made to assess the combined effects of various hydrographic projects on the meadowlands of those rivers. While the politician and lawyer D. W. Alvord oversaw the project, the work was undertaken by the renowned civil engineers Charles Storer Storrow and Joel Herbert Shedd.
While nowhere credited, it is very probable that Storrow and Shedd's surveys were built upon the locally - produced surveys of Henry David Thoreau, (1817 - 1862) famed American essayist, poet, naturalist, and erstwhile surveyor. (more details)
While nowhere credited, it is very probable that Storrow and Shedd's surveys were built upon the locally - produced surveys of Henry David Thoreau, (1817 - 1862) famed American essayist, poet, naturalist, and erstwhile surveyor. (more details)