Learn about the Middlesex Canal, the greatest work of its kind in the United States until the Erie Canal. Kayakers can take out above the Billerica Falls Dam at the canal entrance/parking lot at 2 Old Elm Street and walk part of the canal that Henry Thoreau traveled between the Merrimack and Concord Rivers. For children, a Leggo canal playground, a watered model lock, and a scavenger hunt. Free Middlesex Canal Museum, 71 Faulkner St, 12-4 pm. 

A pair of large, live oxen will visit the Middlesex Canal at 2 Old Elm St, Billerica, 12-4 pm, Saturday.

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Learn about the Middlesex Canal, the greatest work of its kind in the United States until the Erie Canal. Kayakers can take out above the Billerica Falls Dam at the canal entrance/parking lot at 2 Old Elm Street and walk part of the canal that Henry Thoreau traveled between the Merrimack and Concord Rivers. For children, a Leggo canal playground, a watered model lock, and a scavenger hunt. Free Middlesex Canal Museum, 71 Faulkner St, 12-4 pm.