Author: A. F. GREGORY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781333880675
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: A. F. [from old catalog] Gregory
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 17

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Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780890731062
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Castle Island Association
Publisher:
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Category : Castle Island (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Charles G. Hilgenhurst Associates
Publisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Author: Jonathan Jackson
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Notes concerning timber and fortifications of Fort Independence and Castle Island. Noted as a copy and includes two notes dated 30 October from Henry Knox.

Author: Nancy S. Seasholes
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262350211
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 553

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Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.

Author: Castle Island (Alta.)
Publisher: Castle Island, Alta. : Summer Village of Castle Island
ISBN:
Category : Castle Island (Alta.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Mark Robert Schneider
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 155553807X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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The first biography of the popular, long-serving congressman from South Boston

Author: Sam Baltrusis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625855028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Meet the spirits who lurk in the waters near this historic seaport and its secluded islands—photos included! Boston Harbor brims with the restless spirits of pirates, prisoners, and victims of disease and injustice. Uncover the truth behind the Lady in Black on Georges Island. Learn about the former asylums on Long Island that inspired the movie Shutter Island, and dig up the skeletal secrets left behind by the Woman in Scarlet Robes. From items flying off the shelves at a North End cigar shop to the postmortem cries of tragedy at the centuries-old Boston Light on Little Brewster, author Sam Baltrusis breathes new life into the horrors that occurred in the historic waters surrounding Boston.