Sketch plan showing the existing and proposed public reservations upon the banks of the Charles between Waltham line and Craigie Bridge

The Charles River was once a tidal estuary. In the 19th century, its basin was dammed for mills and encircled by factories, prisons, and slaughterhouses, all of which polluted the slow-moving river. By the 1890s, local residents demanded a change, and in 1893 the newly created...

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1894
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06_01_002652
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Massachusetts
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Boston, Mass
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[Massachusetts Metropolitan Park Commission?]
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