. Metropolitan Parks System 1893 - 1993 Rediscover Your Parks
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On '^'^^. MPC begins construction of first parkway (Fellsy/ay). 7r-.
Metropolitan Parks System (MPC) established to "aquire, maintain, and make available to Inhabitants of said Revere Beach waterfront district open spaces for exercise and recreation." acquired. Will be the first public in America. it is America's first park system. beach "'/^ Metropolitan Water Board (MWB) I Created. Metropolitan Water Board and Beginning of aqcqulsttions: Board of Metropolitan -- - Beaver Brook - Blue Hills Middlesex Fells - Stony Brook Sewerage Commissioners Mystic River (1 899) - they are the first metropolitan consolidated, forming reservations in America. the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (MS&SB)
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MPC establishes nursery Metropolitan Sewerage at Blue Hills Reservation A Metropolitan Board (MSB) created. for trees to be planted Commission is along pari
report Is published in 1 893. Middlesex Fells Zoo established with Indigenous
Feiis wildlife, it was the Metropolitan Police established to first zoo In the metropolitan area. protect reservations from fire, vandalism, and pollution. They are America's first Metropolitan Water and Sewerage environmental police. Board (MW&SB) completes construction of the Wachusett Reservoir. Pari Decade of major parkway construction begins. o I CO O oCO o 00 ^3- CO CO Si Si o Breakheart MPC Police guard Reservation reservoirs from aquired. 'saboteurs.' Boston Pops "Esplanade Orchestra' gives its first Charies River dam completed to create concert on the Fourth of basin (locks, etc.): eliminated sanitary July, Arthur Fiedler problem and created recreation area. conducts. Storrow Memorial Embankment expands Esplanade, thanks to MDC builds first artificial $1,000,000 gift skating rink at Blue Hills Reservation. from the Storrow Family. First public boating facility In America Storrow Drive & Memorial Drive closed to traffic; Flrev»/orks begin on July 4. Buslng-MDC police protect school children on busing routes. Storrow Drive construction begins. Quobbln Reservoir completed; opens all-gravity aqueduct. MDC begins constructing 1 9 skating rinks In the metropolitan area. o ^ CO o^ oLO o ^~ ' o CO o olO »oo o Ihe MDC Introduces Community Booting Program on the Charles; MDC hosts It Is the first community boating Head-of-the-Charies program In America. Regatta, the first of Its kind In America. Gieat Hurricane of 1938 ;lpltates greater flood control MDC acquires Franklin Pari< and ftsby the MDC. Seawalls Stone Zoos, beglrts a complete stiucted along shorelines of reconstruction and establishes Ashore reservations. Children's Zoo. I ibbin construction begirs: In 1937 ilfltlon. MDC begins constructing Governor James Michael adds 4,682 acres to pari< and 19 neighborhood pools. MDC ey directs the MDC to begin the watershed systems between est earthen dam In the worid. 1970 and 1990. Quabbin takes eleven years to fill, capacity exceeding 412 billion MDC aqulres Peddocks Island. ons of water, and becomes the d's third largest man-made reservoir. Management of MDC reservations trarisferred gulorty pumps 350-450 mgd to the from MDC Police to newly established ropolltan area and serves 2.5M Parte & Recreation Division. 0l9. WUllam F. Weld, Govcnior A. Paul Cclhicci, Lt. Governor M. IlyBs BhatXJ, Commlaaloner frtmrvtrng ^4 past.. protKTmg digptlnr« Aaeolcate Commlaalonersi Avril T. Elkoit Robert H. C»rr, Jr. Renee M. Lander* MDC DarrylSetties ^„opo\nan Parlo Syst^ Dorchester Shores reclaimed and park opened - MDC to build an eight mile urban seashore park extending form Dorchester to Castle Island. MDC acquires land along the Neponset River in Quincy to establish Squantum Point Park. MDC re-builds Lynnway. MDC sponsors Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra Concert on MDC restores Hatch Shell. the bicentennial In 1976, putting It in the Guiness Book of World Records OS the world's largest outdoor MDC celebrates the Centennial of concert, witti over 600,000 its attending. Metropolitan Park System. CO o CO CO 00 o o 8: r^ 00 10 o O O Belle Isle Marsh opens in E. Boston. MDC dedicates Southwest Corridor Park; 5.5 miles of walking and running paths, playing MDC completes New courts and fields for Inner-city neighborhoods. Charles River Dam. MDC dedicates RIverbank Park on ttte Charles River, MDC operTS America's first recreation In Waltham & Watertown. center exclusively dedicated to the I handicapped in Hyde Park. MDC dedicates Elm Bank In Dover & Wellesley. I MDC renovates and rehabilitates MDC opens Trallside Museum for Revere Beach Reservation. environmental education at Blue Hills. I MDC dedicates Old Harbor Park. MDC beglrTS reconstruction of Fort I MDC dedicates gift of ttne 400 acre Independence on Castle Island. Rumney Marshes Reservation. Since 1991 , the MDC has acquired 2,732 acres for watershed protection and 768 acres for parkland. New Infrastructure planning begins.