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As Boston’s population exploded in the late 19th century, the city constructed the Chestnut Hill Reservoir to supplement the growing demand for water. In addition to its practical purpose, the reservoir was widely extolled in period century guidebooks as “a great pleasure resort” and was a fashionable site for recreational carriage rides. At the time, it was a double reservoir, comprised of two irregular basins divided by a dam, shown here. Only the larger Bradlee Basin remains today, and continues to serve as a recreational park and a back-up water supply for Boston and several other municipalities.
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Document identity
localId
js956k921
label
Brighton park
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
js956k921
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Brighton park
description
As Boston’s population exploded in the late 19th century, the city constructed the Chestnut Hill Reservoir to supplement the growing demand for water. In addition to its practical purpose, the reservoir was widely extolled in period century guidebooks as “a great pleasure resort” and was a fashionable site for recreational carriage rides. At the time, it was a double reservoir, comprised of two irregular basins divided by a dam, shown here. Only the larger Bradlee Basin remains today, and continues to serve as a recreational park and a back-up water supply for Boston and several other municipalities.
date
["1876"]
year
1876
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_004880
creators
Boston (Mass.). Park Commissioners
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Parks--Massachusetts--Boston--Brighton--Maps
Brighton (Boston, Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Brighton
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Boston
publisher
[s.n.]
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
citySection
Brighton
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.15
extent
1 map : col. ; 36 x 54 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
Oriented with north toward the upper right.
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no
dcId
js956k921
type
map
Single page context
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1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
f6358da1127fcbe9