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This map by Benjamin Dearborn (1754-1838) is a proposal to construct what he called "Perpetual Tide Mills" across the Back Bay and South Bay in Boston. The plan details water and marshland as well as streets and roads of Boston, Roxbury, Brookline, Charlestown, Cambridge, Brighton, and Dorchester.
Before its transformation into buildable land by a 19th-century filling project, the Back Bay was a bay, west of the Shawmut Peninsula (on the far side from Boston Harbor) between Boston and Cambridge, the Charles River entering from the west.
However the most radical land-fill operation carried out in Boston was that of the Back Bay, which symbolized “Boston’s wealth and optimism in the late 1850’s and the pride and ambition of her civic leaders.” The Back Bay had been dammed in 1821, and crossed by railroad causeways shortly thereafter.
19 lip 2015 · Map of the Back Bay showing current streets, the 1630 shoreline, the Mill Dam and Cross Dam, and the Full Basin and Receiving Basin; provided by MapWorks, as published in Boston’s Back Bay by William A. Newman and Wilfred E. Holton, p. viii (map copyright MapWorks 2005).
Back Bay. Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary. Map. Directions.
12 maj 2024 · Back Bay is one of Boston’s most iconic and vivid neighborhoods, known for its charming streets, historic architecture, upscale shopping destinations, and cultural attractions. Here are the top 10 best things to do in Back Bay:
Back Bay Filled: The most convenient fill from Boston's hills was already used. Fill was transported from Needham Heights. <more info.> Added more land than the the entire Shawmut peninsula.
