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Beneath Our Feet: From the colonial settlement of Boston in 1630 until 1796, the City’s water supply came from underground wells and cisterns that collected rainwater. To alleviate the effects of using unhealthy and dirty water, the City installed the first underground water pipes in the late 1790s, drawing water from Jamaica Pond. An updated water supply plan, illustrated in this map, was conceived by civil engineer Loammi Baldwin in 1834. Baldwin’s plan called for water to be transported from Long Pond (now Lake Cochituate) in Natick via an above and below ground gravity aqueduct that would deposit good-quality water into a reservoir. From there, lead and cast iron pipes transported the water throughout the city.
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wd376664t
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Plan and profiles of surveys from Farm Pond in Framingham and Long Pond in Natick, for supplying water to the City of Boston
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map
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1
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wd376664t
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map
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normalized
title
Plan and profiles of surveys from Farm Pond in Framingham and Long Pond in Natick, for supplying water to the City of Boston
description
Beneath Our Feet: From the colonial settlement of Boston in 1630 until 1796, the City’s water supply came from underground wells and cisterns that collected rainwater. To alleviate the effects of using unhealthy and dirty water, the City installed the first underground water pipes in the late 1790s, drawing water from Jamaica Pond. An updated water supply plan, illustrated in this map, was conceived by civil engineer Loammi Baldwin in 1834. Baldwin’s plan called for water to be transported from Long Pond (now Lake Cochituate) in Natick via an above and below ground gravity aqueduct that would deposit good-quality water into a reservoir. From there, lead and cast iron pipes transported the water throughout the city.
date
["1834"]
year
1834
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_002657
creators
Perham, Benjamin Franklin, 1806-ca. 1837
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Water-supply--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Water-supply--Massachusetts--Natick--Maps
Water-supply--Massachusetts--Framingham--Maps
Boston (Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Framingham
Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
Natick
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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1
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pubPlace
Boston, Mass
publisher
Pendleton's Lithogy
Source extras
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sf268508b
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9s1621613
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
extent
1 plan ; 16 x 50 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
"Sept. 30th, 1834."
Includes 4 profiles.
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wd376664t
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map
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photo
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