Storrow, Charles Storer (sold)
Charles Storer Storrow (March 25, 1809 - April 30, 1904) was an American civil engineer. He is known for having designed the dam and textile mill complex of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was born in Montréal and educated in Paris, where his father did business. He returned to America in 1824 to attend Harvard. After graduating in 1829, he again moved to Paris to study hydraulics. He brought his new expertise to America in 1832, where he joined the staff of the Boston and Lowell Railroad as an engineer. In 1845. Storrow became chief engineer at the Essex Company, a company organized to harness the water power of the Merrimack River. He would not only design and build the Great Stone Dam across the Merrimack, but he also built several textile mills there, along with a small city - Lawrence - to house their workers. He would become the first mayor of Lawrence in 1853. He had literally written the book on the mathematical theory of hydraulics: A Treatise on Water-Works for Conveying and Distributing Supplies of Water; he would author an array of reports on projects ranging from the Hoosac Tunnel to the impact of hydraulic projects on the meadows of the Concord River.
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)