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Shawmut (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
The Cambridge littoral. Frederic H. Viaux. When the lone pioneer Blaxton, voluntary Crusoe of Shawmut, climbed to the peak of the hill at the foot of which he had pitched his solitary camp, he beheld to the westward two great bays, barely held apart at the base of the slopes by a low, narrow path disappearing in the highlands beyond. In either of these spacious coves the navies of the world of the time might have found ample anchorage. A winding river, flowing down from the westerly hills, broadened into a noble estuary that formed a land-locked harbor, and, narrowing again, rushed with a sister stream in confluence towards the open sea. It was a bountiful stream of fresh water that brought Winthrop and his men to the hills of Blaxton's peninsula, on the slopes of which they settled and faced the blasts of the east wind. Had these life-giving waters gushed forth on the farther bank of the great bay to the north, the Boston of the pioneers would have been founded there,—th
Middlesex Village (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
parse population, the marshes, as yet undefiled, performed auxiliary service to the farmer with their supplies of salt hay, and the flats, as yet untainted, gave him the mussel and the clam in plenty. The yield of the grass gave but slight value to the riparian lands. It was not until the people grew in such numbers as to exhaust the uplands, that any attempt was made to reclaim the lowlands for habitation or commerce. The bridge of 1793, which became the great highway from the towns of Middlesex to the markets of Boston, and so quickly doubled the population of Cambridge, gave the first impetus to the work of pushing back the sea. Its long causeway was laboriously made over the marshes, and, later, little by little, a rod of land was gained from the waters here and there on either side as the increasing traffic justified the enterprise of shop or of inn. The new prosperity of the town awakened the ambition of the more sanguine. Why suffer Cambridge to be merely a roadway to the c
Charles (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ement, and liberal corporate powers were granted them under the name of the Charles River Embankment Company. The esplanade two hundred feet in width was provided ft Chester Park. In February of the same year, the incorporators of the new Charles River Embankment Company, after a vexatious delay, took conveyance of about one hhind. This was the first material work done towards the adornment of the Charles River basin and the devotion of its shores to public uses. Boston began what is all the new commons, directed general attention to the opportunities of the Charles River. Agitation was begun for the extension of the Boston embankment farther upiny as the most beautiful water-park in America. The general discussion of Charles River questions led to the creation of a special commission (1891) charged with iourteen hundred and sixty feet in length, and the entire Cambridge bank of the Charles from the westerly terminal of the esplanade under construction by the Embankme
Broad Canal (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
of solving the utilitarian problems in this section. The Cambridge Improvement Company was thus formed, and became possessed of between fifty and sixty acres of lowlands, mostly flats, between Third Street and the river. The interposition of Broad Canal between these lands and Main Street, always a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to the use of these lands, effectually closed them from advantageous connection with Boston. With the aid of the authorities of the municipality, this barrier waster front, half a mile in length, lying between the canal and either bridge. The effort to recover this land was at once renewed, and this time with effect. First Street was at once filled, from its terminus at Binney Street to the line of Broad Canal, a thousand feet in length, and the sea-wall along the river extended easterly. By a wise cooperation of the city authorities and the courageous investor, the Broad Canal was at length bridged, and entrance gained to Main Street at its juncti
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ed the enterprise of shop or of inn. The new prosperity of the town awakened the ambition of the more sanguine. Why suffer Cambridge to be merely a roadway to the capital town, when the great basin of the Charles offered as ample a roadstead as the harbor below? Let the market-wagons end their journey in Cambridge and there exchange their burdens for the freights of the world brought direct to the wharves of Cambridge. Why tamely suffer Boston to monopolize the commerce of the seas, when Salem and Newburyport and New Bedford successfully disputed for a share? Out of such ambitions grew the ditch canals of the new port of Cambridge, and the laying out, on a grand scale for the day, of the Broad Way leading over the marshes to the high lands. But the enterprise, praiseworthy as was its conception, languished, and dashed the hopes of its courageous promoters. Like the bridge, however, it stimulated settlement upon the marshes; for the excavations of the canals were cast up on eith
Watertown (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
hern bay which had kept Boston and Cambridge apart so long with the breadth of its waters and the wide stretches of its marshes and flats. These tide-covered lowlands skirted the town its entire easterly and southerly sides from Charlestown to Watertown, a distance of nearly five miles. More than a third in extent of what is now Cambridge was lapped by the spring-tides up to the beginning of the century. To the east a mile of lowlands lay between the town and the channel of the Charles. As lt Cambridge, between Craigie and West Boston bridges, fourteen hundred and sixty feet in length, and the entire Cambridge bank of the Charles from the westerly terminal of the esplanade under construction by the Embankment Company almost to the Watertown line, a distance of over three miles. The waste areas to the north of Main Street have also been slowly undergoing changes for the better. Of the intricate system of canals devised for the creation of the port that was to rival Boston, one
Noddle's Island (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
one other in or near the capital city. All elements necessary for the creation of a commercial district of this character seem to be here in happy conspiracy. It is almost at the gates of Boston. First Street is only a mile distant from the City Hall of Boston, and, accordingly, nearer to that accepted centre than the Hotel Vendome, than the new Union station now proposed on the Back Bay, than Dover Street, than all South Boston, except a small portion of the newly made lands, than all East Boston, than all Charlestown but a small fraction. Barges of the largest size may be moored at its wharves, and, by spur from the main line of steel track, the products of its factories may find direct land transportation over the continent. Two main thoroughfares lead from this quarter straight to the heart of the great city over the narrow waters in one direction, and out into the cities and towns beyond in the other. Here wide streets will afford ample room for traffic, and preserve the p
Newburyport (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
rise of shop or of inn. The new prosperity of the town awakened the ambition of the more sanguine. Why suffer Cambridge to be merely a roadway to the capital town, when the great basin of the Charles offered as ample a roadstead as the harbor below? Let the market-wagons end their journey in Cambridge and there exchange their burdens for the freights of the world brought direct to the wharves of Cambridge. Why tamely suffer Boston to monopolize the commerce of the seas, when Salem and Newburyport and New Bedford successfully disputed for a share? Out of such ambitions grew the ditch canals of the new port of Cambridge, and the laying out, on a grand scale for the day, of the Broad Way leading over the marshes to the high lands. But the enterprise, praiseworthy as was its conception, languished, and dashed the hopes of its courageous promoters. Like the bridge, however, it stimulated settlement upon the marshes; for the excavations of the canals were cast up on either side, and
South Boston (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
encouragement, should grow up a great manufacturing quarter second to none other in or near the capital city. All elements necessary for the creation of a commercial district of this character seem to be here in happy conspiracy. It is almost at the gates of Boston. First Street is only a mile distant from the City Hall of Boston, and, accordingly, nearer to that accepted centre than the Hotel Vendome, than the new Union station now proposed on the Back Bay, than Dover Street, than all South Boston, except a small portion of the newly made lands, than all East Boston, than all Charlestown but a small fraction. Barges of the largest size may be moored at its wharves, and, by spur from the main line of steel track, the products of its factories may find direct land transportation over the continent. Two main thoroughfares lead from this quarter straight to the heart of the great city over the narrow waters in one direction, and out into the cities and towns beyond in the other. He
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 12
t meagre means of communication with the parent settlement, despite the dignity of a college foundation, and the war of the Revolution had been fought and independence won, the Constitution had been adopted and Washington was President of the United States, before the people finally abandoned their uncertain ferries and spanned the river with a causeway and bridge, thus gaining ready access to Blaxton's hills and the great town of the day that had grown up upon and around them. That part ofn up; the pollution of its tides by noxious sewage was denounced, and an era of popular appreciation of the noble river and its broad estuary set in, out of which is fast coming the fulfillment of its destiny as the most beautiful water-park in America. The general discussion of Charles River questions led to the creation of a special commission (1891) charged with inquiring into and reporting upon the proper treatment for the public weal of the historic stream. This was followed by the reco
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