In Worcester, Boland and Wright got to work charting the course of the proposed canal. They focused on the neighborhoods of ...

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Tobias Boland was an Irish immigrant — by way of the Erie Canal, where he oversaw work crews — who arrived in Worcester in 1826 and soon began planning the Blackstone Canal. Two centuries ...