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Boston’s largest body of fresh water, Jamaica Pond had long served both as a recreation spot and water source for the city. To Olmsted, the pond was a natural setting for a park, describing it in 1882 as “a natural sheet of water, with quiet, graceful shores, rear banks of varied elevation and contour, for the most part shaded by a fine natural forest-growth.” Unlike other parks in the Emerald Necklace, Olmsted did relatively little to alter the terrain. Shown here, Jamaica Park connects to the Necklace by two parkways: Jamaicaway to the north, and Arborway, formerly Bussey Farm Parkway.
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Document identity
localId
js956k98p
label
Jamaica Park and Bussey Farm Parkway
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
js956k98p
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Jamaica Park and Bussey Farm Parkway
description
Boston’s largest body of fresh water, Jamaica Pond had long served both as a recreation spot and water source for the city. To Olmsted, the pond was a natural setting for a park, describing it in 1882 as “a natural sheet of water, with quiet, graceful shores, rear banks of varied elevation and contour, for the most part shaded by a fine natural forest-growth.” Unlike other parks in the Emerald Necklace, Olmsted did relatively little to alter the terrain. Shown here, Jamaica Park connects to the Necklace by two parkways: Jamaicaway to the north, and Arborway, formerly Bussey Farm Parkway.
date
["1876"]
year
1876
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_003911
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--Jamaica Plain--Maps
Jamaica Plain (Boston, Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Jamaica Plain
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Boston, Mass
publisher
[s.n.]
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
citySection
Jamaica Plain
schema:latitude
42.3
schema:longitude
-71.1167
extent
1 map : col. ; 37 x 54 cm.
notes
Oriented with north toward the upper left.
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no
dcId
js956k98p
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map
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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2309250962ae6d09