Middlesex Canal Trail – Baldwin House

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2 Alfred St
Woburn, MA

(42.5019188,-71.1573563)

Directions

Park behind the restaurant or alternatively across the street at the shopping center. The trail begins in the lot behind the restaurant.

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The Middlesex Canal was built from 1793 to 1803 allowing travel between Boston and Merrimack River in Lowell. The Baldwin House was home to several generations of Baldwins including Colonel Loammi Baldwin who surveyed the route of the canal and served as its principal engineer. The house dates to 1750 and appears on the National Register of Historic Places. It once stood across the street and was moved to make way for the shopping center. Today it is occupied by the excellent Sichuan Garden restaurant. Behind the house is a trail that runs alongside a water filled remnant of the canal to School St in Woburn. Nearby at the corner of Alfred St and Main St is Kiwanis Park with a plaque describing the canal and across the street between Elm St and Main St is a statue of Loammi Baldwin.