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Plan Of Boston Comprising a Part of Charlestown and Cambridge. Published by George G. Smith, Engraver, Washington Street Boston 1855.. |
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Important and detailed plan of Boston, with insets :"Plan Of East Boston from actual Survey by R.H. Eddy" and "Plan Of South Boston From a Drawing by S.P. Fuller".
A noted mid-19th century map of Boston: among the earliest to
show the proposed filling of Back Bay. This decorative map of Boston
shows the city divided into wards and fire districts, with the city's
streets and wharves named.
The map identifies many of the public
buildings, schools and churches located in the city. The most notable
feature on this map, however, is its depiction of the proposed filling
of Back Bay.
"The tide mills had not been successful and, cut off by the
Mill Dam and with the flow of water further impeded by the railroad
embankments, the Back Bay, into which all the sewers from surrounding
areas drained, had become a stinking cesspool. By the early 1850s it was
determined that the only solution was to fill the bay, and in 1854 the
state and the Boston Water Power Company, the two major owners of the
Back Bay flats, made an agreement for filling them. This agreement
included the street grid plan shown on the 1855 map.
This street grid
had been laid out without regard for the railroad tracks, and eventually,
only the streets east of Dartmouth, which is just west of the point
where the tracks crossed, were constructed." (Mapping Boston, plate 39,
page 205). The filling of Back Bay would begin in 1857 and take nearly
twenty-five years to complete.
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Plan Of Boston Comprising a Part of Charlestown and Cambridge. Published by George G. Smith, Engraver, Washington Street Boston 1855..
Important and detailed plan of Boston, with insets :"Plan Of East Boston from actual Survey by R.H. Eddy" and "Plan Of South Boston From a Drawing by S.P. ...
Date: Boston, ca. 1859
