Electric Power, Volume 6 – 1894
A description of the dam, power canal and power plant begins on page 118.   Historical photos.

Italian laborers who dug a huge power canal by hand were overseen by brutal ‘bosses’

Laws of New Hampshire: Second constitutional period, 1829-1835
An Act to Incorporate the Proprietors of the Sewall's Falls Locks and Canal begins on page 490.

Locks And Canals Of The Merrimack River – Part II
A brief history of the canal.

Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England
A brief history of the 1890s dam and power canal begins on page 270.

Sewall's Falls Dam, 1892 October 8

A historical photo of the dam.

Sewall’s Falls Locks and Canals
A brief history and description of the canal.

The History of Concord, from Its First Grant in 1725, to the Organization of the City Government in 1853
A brief history of the first attempt to build a canal is on page 432.

The History of Concord, N.H.
Includes a brief article about an 1835 failed attempt to build the canal.