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Paperback Boston's Back Bay Book

ISBN: 0738590258

ISBN13: 9780738590257

Boston's Back Bay

(Part of the Images of America: Massachusetts Series)

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One of the largest development projects in nineteenth-century America, Boston's Back Bay was essentially a tidal basin until the construction of the Mill Dam (present-day Beacon Street) just after the War of 1812. By 1837, the area bounded by Charles, Boylston, Beacon, and Arlington Streets was filled in and laid out as the Public Garden, later the site of Boston's famous swanboats. In the late 1850s, the massive infill of the Back Bay commenced,...

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