DOCSLIB.ORG

Norfolk County, MA

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Norfolk County, MA 42.321212N 42.320627N 70.983713W GOVERNMENTAL UNIT REFERENCE MAP (2015): Norfolk County, MA 70.895126W LEGEND SYMBOL DESCRIPTION SYMBOL LABEL STYLE Boston Harbor Islands Natl Rec Area Federal American Indian Reservation L'ANSE RESERVATION (TA 1880) Off-Reservation Trust Land T1880 American Indian Tribal Subdivision SHONTO (620) Boston Harbor Islands Natl Rec Area Alaska Native Regional Corporation (ANRC) NANA ANRC 52120 State (or statistically equivalent entity) NEW YORK 36 County (or statistically equivalent entity) ERIE 029 Minor Civil Division (MCD)1 Lee town 41460 Census County Division Boston Harbor Islands 2 Jemez CCD 91650 Natl Rec Area (CCD) Consolidated City MILFORD 47500 MCD* 07000 Boston 07000 SUFFOLK 025 PLYMOUTH 023 Incorporated Place 3 Davis 18100 Census Designated Place (CDP) 2 Cochiti 16560 DESCRIPTION SYMBOL DESCRIPTION SYMBOL Rd Massachusetts Bay orview Long Island Rd arb Interstate 3 H Water Body tasket Ave Pleasant Lake Nan U.S. Highway 2 Swamp or Marsh Okefenokee Swamp Duck Ln State Highway 4 Channel St Lafayette Rd e v Marsh Ln Glacier Bering Glacier A Other Road n a e c O M ain Cul-de-sac St Airport Oxnard Airport Rd Farina Hull Bay Circle Spinnaker Island Cswy College or University Coll/Univ Geographic Offset or Corridor4 St Spring Military Fort Belvoir Western Ave 4WD Trail, Stairway, Alley, Walkway, or Ferry Prison or Juvenile P/JDC ve Andrew Ave A Southern RR Detention Center ot rin Railroad ut Va M Cemetery Powell Cmtry e a Pipeline or v r A i d n lan a Power Line h D H ig r Golf Course Pinehurst GlfCrs SUFFOLK 025 Ridge or Fence NORFOLK 021 Property Line or National Park or Forest Yosemite NP Nonvisible Boundary Tumbling Cr Other Park Perennial Stream St Francis Park Piney Cr Hull 31680 Hull town 31645 Intermittent Stream Outside Subject Area Nantasket Roads Mt. Baker Mountain Peak or Hill Inset Area A1 Hull Bay Where state, county, and/or MCD/CCD boundaries coincide, the map shows the boundary symbol for only the highest-ranking of these boundaries. Where American Indian reservation and American Indian tribal subdivision boundaries coincide, the map shows only the American Indian reservation boundaries. Entity names are followed by either their FIPS code or census code; parentheses indicate a census code. 1 'MCD*' indicates a false MCD. These are for Census Bureau use only. 2 The CCD and CDP boundaries represent statistical entities only and are not updated through the BAS. 3 Incorporated place name color corresponds to the incorporated place fill color. 4 Geographic offsets and corridors are displayed directly on the road. Geographic offsets and corridors represent the road right-of-way for both or one side of a road and typically extend thirty feet from the road. Lake Evans Boston Harbor Islands Natl Rec Area Hull Bay Due to space limitations, some road names, along with other feature and geography PLYM Evans OUTH 023 names on the map, may not be shown. Lake NORFOLK 021 The Census Bureau stores primary and alternate road names, but only primary road names are used to label the roads on these maps. Hingham town 30210 Boston Harbor Islands Natl Rec Area Boston Harbor Islands Natl Rec Area Hingham Bay Hull Bay BAS SIGNATURE BOX The corrected boundaries shown on the map are accurate as of January 1, 2016. Print Name N u t S Quincy 55745 I ea MCD* 55745 s la A Position n v d e A Is v la e n d A v e Mears Ave Signature Telephone Date Fensmere Ave Chapel Weymouth Town 78972 St M e e d MCD* 78972 v w S A a For Census Use Only t y Crosby St w ie r Rd V NPC COUNTY te a St t Bay sby s S w Cro PROCESSING SHEET CHANGES an s Winthrop St le y Or a Harveys Ln B Parkhurst e et Av St State Code: County Code: Man Shennen St Rogers Ln W e Boston Harbor Islands Changes: (circle) N B C F A J PL AL Osw y Ratchford Cir m Natl Rec Area o ego BellSt St u H Malvern t Boston Harbor Islands u h l Wall St Other Entity Affected Type of Change (circle) l S e Natl Rec Area S St t d i t s e Ave St k Bird St on a B F A L J t L ugh Babcock St Sto B rig ht Charles St on B F A L J St St Newton Turner St Lenox St Sea St Darrow St St Malvern Winthrop St Rd Hawthorne St n Casco St P rso e t e Littlefield St Shellton Rd Madeleine Marine St St Macy St Alb Freca Rd Key to Adjacent Sheets atros d Sheet Location within Entity P s R R lo d v n e o Seagull Joseph St r r e R Bitte H P d rn os Rd Rd t Islan d Rd Dr d Edgewater d R Ingram Curlew Rd Rd llar a Rhod Hooper St B M St a S e t a Elcott Rd e Nahant St c Petrel id Sp h s t Huntress St ring St Poplar Rd re P o K S Allerton St W e P H lican R h i a d S l Ave 8th e a Rd b t o y l Air Rd y w ta o Be S S s d t e Rockland St Tower St S Lee y t S St t w Ro ie Mead St ck Is rv C lan e 9 10 11 Pawsey St d u Gannett Rd Gannett iv t s Rd S h R in Weymouth Fore Riv g Rd A v Pequot e Noanet St Noanet t St Oneida Camden St S t a S ic Sta we t e t e o Whiton Ave U v St H A e e v A e Oc r ea Jarvis Ave t e n 17 18 19 n d K F V i i ie E i o w a s m r r le a o b D e y B r t n e a H o v i a Lind St B l v i n ll e g R e B R A h d e a v D c a h ie c w h R Park Cir Weymouth Back Riv R d D t Truro St ve d r h S Palm Empire St ld A ars er St St fie M Riverbank orth Roanoke N Sheet 10 of 38 PARENT sheets Rd Quentin St Downer Ave Rd Broady Ave Oakwood W G o Total Sheets: 43 (Index 1; Parent 38; Inset 4) er m tru p de Ave Brockton Ave a tu Beebe Rd d c R k r m Grace Rd Rhude St Birch P ill D Driftway cu R a t H na d P Rd r c Ca n e la e p n ayflower s C t ll M o t e G r Rd li S S op f r B rs P f r Roach StDoyle Ter Doane St t T ve road Ave ll i R F o O i S R each t H i v is t e ld e St NAME: Norfolk County (021) Chesley Rd Bacon Rd Broad L A Re n v Howe St ach e Bowes Ave ENTITY TYPE: County or statistically equivalent entity Shed St Wolcott St Weymouth Back Riv ST: Massachusetts (25) 42.255475N 42.254891N 70.984455W 70.895959W Projection: Albers Equal Area Conic All legal boundaries and names are as reported through the 2015 Boundary and Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) ID: 22502100000 INDEX OR PARENT SHEET #: 010 Annexation Survey (BAS). The boundaries shown on this map are for Census Bureau Datum: NAD 83 INSET SHEET #: 000000 statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation Spheroid: GRS 80 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Kilometers BAS Submission Deadline: March 1, 2016 for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority 1st Standard Parallel: 41 28 12 or rights of ownership or entitlement. 2nd Standard Parallel: 42 36 12 0 1048 2096 3144 4192 5240 Feet PDF versions of the BAS maps are now available at: 2015 COUNTY REF MAP (PARENT) Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau's MAF/TIGER database (BAS16), September 2015 Central Meridian: -71 42 02 The plotted map scale is 1:10000 www.census.gov/geo/partnerships/bas.html Created by Geography Division: November 23, 2015 Latitude of Projection's Origin: 41 11 12 False Easting: 0 For more information, or to request additional maps, please email [email protected], U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau False Northing: 0 call 1-800-972-5651, or visit www.census.gov/geo/partnerships/bas.html. 455022502100000010000000.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Underwater Pipelines
    How does liquid sludge get from Winthrop to Quincy for dewatering, drying and conversion to Class A biosolids? The MWRA Deer Island Treatment Plant ("DITP") is located near Winthrop, Massachusetts, and the Biosolids Processing Facility ("BPF") is located in Quincy, a distance of approximately 7 miles. In the early years of the BPF project, liquid sludge was loaded at DITP onto barges that NEFCO towed across Boston Harbor to Quincy. The barges served from 1991 through 2005. BPF wastewater, consisting principally of dewatering effluent (centrate) flowed through local sewers to an aging primary treatment plant at Nut Island, also in Quincy. As MWRA’s Boston Harbor Cleanup project progressed, underground sludge pipelines to the BPF were constructed in two phases. The sludge pipes were included in two wastewater tunnel projects. Wastewater was routed from new headworks at Nut Island to a new pump station at DITP. The five- mile-long, deep rock Inter-Island Tunnel was constructed to carry this wastewater. When this tunnel was constructed, dual 14 inch pipes were cast into its concrete lining to convey liquid sludge in the reverse direction. This tunnel and the twin sludge pipelines were completed in 1998. The history of the MWRA sewer system can be found on the MWRA web site: http://www.mwra.state.ma.us/03sewer/html/sewhist.htm The next phase of sludge piping was as part of the Braintree-Weymouth Interceptor project. This tunnel carries sewage towards Nut Island and ultimately to DITP. The project also extended the twin sludge pipelines to the Braintree-Weymouth pump station.
    [Show full text]
  • Weir River Area of Critical Environmental Concern Natural Resources Inventory
    Weir River Area of Critical Environmental concern Natural Resources Inventory Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs Massachusetts Watershed Initiative Department of Environmental Management Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) Program August 2002 Jane Swift, Governor Bob Durand, Secretary, EOEA Peter C. Webber, Commissioner, DEM This document was prepared by Special thanks to Elizabeth Sorensen, Katie Urban Harbors Institute Lund, Jason Burtner, Karl Pastore, Margo University of Massachusetts Boston Clerkin, Straits Pond Watershed Association, 100 Morrissey Boulevard David Roach, Samantha Woods, Sally Avery, J. Boston, MA 02125 Hall, J. Lupos, B. McNamara, Ed Petrilak, and (617) 287.5570 Judith Van Hamm www.uhi.umb.edu Cover photo, Cory Riley Table Of Contents Index of Figures and 10. Land Use 37 Tables ii 11. Open Space and 1. Introduction 1 Recreation 40 12.1 World's End 40 2. Characteristics 12.2 Town of Hull 40 and Designation 5 12.3 Tufts University 41 12.4 Weir River Estuary Park 41 2.1 ACEC Background 5 2.2 Designation of ACEC 5 12. Recreation and Commercial Boating 43 3. Regional History 8 A. Hull 43 3.1 Archaeological Evaluation 7 B. Hingham 43 3.2 Local Industries 7 3.3 Straits Pond 8 13. Future Research 44 3.4 Flood History 9 4. Geology and Soils 11 Literature Cited 45 5. Watershed Appendix A - Natural Heritage Characteristics 12 Endangered Species Program 48 6. Habitats of the ACEC 14 6.1 Estuaries 14 Appendix B - Nomination and 6.2 Tidal Flats 14 Designation of the 6.3 Salt Marsh 14 Weir River ACEC 49 6.4 Shallow Marsh Meadow 15 Appendix C - World’s End Endangered 6.4 Eel Grass Beds 15 Species 58 6.5 Vernal Pools 15 7.
    [Show full text]
  • BOHA Water Resources Scoping Report
    BOSTON HARBOR ISLANDS – A NATIONAL PARK AREA, MASSACHUSETTS WATER RESOURCES SCOPING REPORT Mark D. Flora Technical Report NPS/NRWRD/NRTR-2002/300 United States Department of the Interior • National Park Service The National Park Service Water Resources Division is responsible for providing water resources management policy and guidelines, planning, technical assistance, training, and operational support to units of the national park system. Program areas include water rights, water resources planning, regulatory guidance and review, hydrology, water quality, watershed management, watershed studies, and aquatic ecology. Technical Reports The National Park Service disseminates the results of biological, physical, and social research through the Natural Resources Technical Report Series. Natural resources inventories and monitoring activities, scientific literature reviews, bibliographies, and proceedings of technical workshops and conferences are also disseminated through this series. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use by the National Park Service. Copies of this report are available from the following: National Park Service (970) 225-3500 Water Resources Division 1201 Oak Ridge Drive, Suite 250 Fort Collins, CO 80525 National Park Service (303) 969-2130 Technical Information Center Denver Service Center P.O. Box 25287 Denver, CO 80225-0287 ii BOSTON HARBOR ISLANDS – A NATIONAL PARK AREA MASSACHUSETTS WATER RESOURCES SCOPING REPORT Mark D. Flora1 Technical Report NPS/NRWRD/NRTR-2002/300 December, 2002 1Chief, Planning & Evaluation Branch, Water Resources Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Denver, Colorado This report was accepted and the recommendations endorsed by unanimous vote of the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership on December 17, 2002.
    [Show full text]
  • Sculptors Gallery Proudly Hosts “34,” a Group Exhibition Curated by Liz Devlin of FLUX
    !"#$"% #&'()$"*# +,((-*. !"#$%&'"(!) *++, 486 Harrison Ave, Boston,."t ! XXXCPTUPOTDVMQUPSTDPNtCPTUPOTDVMQUPST!ZBIPPDPN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7, 2015 Exhibition Title: 34 Exhibition Dates: July 22 – August 16, 2015 Artists’ Reception: July 26 from 3 – 5 pm SOWA First Friday Reception: August 7 from 5 – 8 pm Gallery Hours: Wed. – Sun. from 12 – 6 pm (Boston, MA): As a part of the Isles Arts Initiative, a summer long public art series on the Boston Harbor Islands and in venues across Boston, the Boston Sculptors Gallery proudly hosts “34,” a group exhibition curated by Liz Devlin of FLUX. Boston Sculptors Gallery will showcase work inspired by the intrinsic beauty and divergent tales of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park. “34” is a group exhibition that includes 34 regional artists each responding to one of the 34 Boston Harbor Islands. Each imaginative work will be accompanied by a placard, featuring text from Chris Klein’s Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands, which outlines a brief history of the particular island and will provide additional context for the work itself. The exhibition serves as a physical beacon on land that will be in conversation with the artwork on the harbor. Artists’ work will educate and inspire visitors, sharing unique perspectives and visionary iconography that will demonstrate why the islands’ history is among the most fascinating in our region. About Boston Sculptors: Founded in 1992, Boston Sculptors Gallery is an artist-run organization that presents and promotes innovative, challenging sculpture and installations. It is the only sculptors organization in the United States that maintains its own exhibition space. The organization has presented exhibitions of its sculptors in other venues and countries and occasionally invites Curators to present exhibitions in its gallery in Boston’s South End.
    [Show full text]
  • South Shore Nonpoint Source Management Plan
    South Shore Nonpoint Source Management Plan The Towns of: Cohasset, Duxbury, Hanover, Hingham, Marshfield, Norwell, Rockland, Scituate, Weymouth This project was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection under the Clean Water Act, Section 604(b), Grant #95-03. July 1998 WQ/98-01 Credits and Acknowledgements This report was prepared by the staff of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council under the supervision of the Executive Director. The Metropolitan Area Planning Council is the officially designated regional planning agency for 101 cities and towns in the Boston metropolitan area. The Council offers technical assistance to its member communities in the areas of land use, housing, environmental quality, energy, transportation, and economic development. 1998 – 1999 MAPC Officers Grace S. Shepard, President Richard C. Walker, III, Vice President Donna M. Jacobs, Secretary Richard A. Easler, Treasurer David C. Soule, Executive Director Credits Project Manager: Mary Ellen Schloss Principal Author: Mary Ellen Schloss GIS/Cartography: Paul Spina Assistant Planner: Susan Phinney Planning Interns: Caroline Ganley, Scott G. Robson Graphics: Scott G. Robson Technical Review: Martin Pillsbury Technical Assistance: Bill Clark, MassBays Program South Shore Water Resources Advisory Committee (“Project Committee”) Cohasset Conservation Commission John Bryant Water Commissioner, Water John McNabb Resources Protection Committee Duxbury Town Planner Tom Broadrick Hanover Conservation
    [Show full text]
  • Massachusetts Coastal Infrastructure Inventory and Assessment Project Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Office of Waterways
    Massachusetts Coastal Infrastructure Inventory and Assessment Project Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Office of Waterways Massachusetts Coastal Communities October, 2009 Massachusetts Coastal Infrastructure Inventory and Assessment Project Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Office of Waterways TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN WORKING GROUP MEMBERS 8 INTRODUCTION 9 STUDY PURPOSE 13 LIMIT OF STUDY 14 DEVELOPMENT OF MassGIS DATABASE ATTRIBUTES 15 DEVELOPMENT OF REPAIR/RECONSTRUCTION COSTS 18 DEVELOPMENT OF THE 20-YEAR MAINTENANCE/REPAIR PROGRAM 20 RECOMMENDATIONS 22 INDEX OF APPEDIXES A: COASTAL REGIONS MAP 25 B: STRUCTURE CONDITION TABLE 26 C: PRIORITY RATING SYSTEM 27 D: 2006 REPAIR/RECONSTRUCTION COSTING DATA SHEET 28 E: SAMPLE COMMUNITY DATA SHEET 29 F: INFRASTRUCTURE PRIORITY LISTING 32 2 G: BREAKDOWN OF STRUCUTRE TYPE BY CONDITION RATING 34 H: MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING REPORT FORM 35 I: 20 YEAR SPENDING PLAN 36-87 YEAR ONE 36 YEAR TWO 37 YEAR THREE 38 YEAR FOUR 39 YEAR FIVE 40 YEAR SIX 42 YEAR SEVEN 43 YEAR EIGHT 44 YEAR NINE 46 YEAR TEN 48 YEAR ELEVEN 49 YEAR TWELVE 50 YEAR THIRTEEN 51 YEAR FOURTEEN 52 YEAR FIFTEEN 54 YEAR SIXTEEN 67 YEAR SEVENTEEN 61 YEAR EIGHTEEN 66 YEAR NINETEEN 68 YEAR TWENTY 72 3 Massachusetts Coastal Infrastructure Inventory and Assessment Project Coastal Hazards Commission Infrastructure Plan Working Group Summary Report EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Infrastructure Plan Working Group of the Coastal Hazards Commission (CHC) was tasked with prioritizing coastal protection structures maintenance and repairs. In the report Preparing for the Storm: Recommendations for Management of Risk from Coastal Hazards in Massachusetts; May 2007, Chapter 3 - Infrastructure Inventory discussed the South Shore Pilot Project, since the time of the project, the remaining coastline inventory has been completed.
    [Show full text]
  • Historical Description of the Vegetation of the Boston Harbor Islands: 1600-2000
    Boston Harbor Istatids National Park Area: Natural Resources Overview 2005 Northeastern Naturalist 12(Special Issue 3): 13-30 Historical Description of the Vegetation of the Boston Harbor Islands: 1600-2000 JULIE A. RICHBURG' AND WILLIAM A. PATTERSON III'* Abstract - Historical accounts and descriptions of the Boston Harbor Islands were searched for references to the islands' vegetation. They indicate dra- matic changes in vegetation structure and composition since 1600. Many of the islands were wooded prior to European settlement, although Native American use is evident before 1600. Forests were cleared for agriculture, building materials, and firewood. Through the centuries since European settlement, the islands have variously supported municipal and military fa- cilities, some of which have since been abandoned. As use of the islands changed, the vegetation of the islands also changed; in some cases native trees and other species returned to abandoned areas, while in others new, exotic species became established or were planted. By the end of the 20"' century the vegetation had become a mixture of woodlands (roughly 25% of the islands as a whole), shrub thickets, open lands, and manicured land- scapes, all of which include a large component of non-native species. Introduction Being a focal point for the early history ofthe United States, Boston and its people have been studied for centuries. From the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the Tea Party and the lives of early presidents, Boston holds a special place in the history of Massachusetts, New England, and the United States. The islands of Boston Harbor have also been studied for their role in protecting the new colony via forts and lighthouses, in commerce and fishing, and in social services.
    [Show full text]
  • MWRA's History
    SPECIAL SECTION >>> History of the MWRA The Water and Sewer Systems When Boston area cities and towns first Island where it was held for release with the faced the problems of clean water sources outgoing tide. Then, the same forward- and sewage disposal in the 1600s, their looking engineers that designed the water methods were primitive. But by 1795 wooden system began to tackle the problem of pipes delivered water from Jamaica Pond to sewage disposal. By the early 1900s, a Boston. By the late 1840s, however, Jamaica series of pipes and pumping stations Pond was too small and too polluted to transported the sewage into Boston Harbor. provide water to Boston’s 50,000 residents. By 1919, however, sewage pollution forced And so, the pattern of moving continually the closure of several harbor clam beds. westward in search of larger water sources In 1952, The Metropolitan District began - from the 2-billion gallon Lake Commission (MDC) built the region’s first Cochituate in 1848, to the 19-billion gallon primary wastewater treatment plant at Nut Sudbury Reservoir in 1878, to the 65-billion Island to handle the flows from the gallon Wachusett Reservoir in 1908, to the communities south of Boston and in 1968, 412-billion gallon Quabbin Reservoir in 1939. another primary wastewater treatment plant The construction of the Quabbin Reservoir was added on Deer Island to handle the rest was the last major investment in the water of metropolitan Boston’s sewage. By the system and no plans were in place for early 1970s, both of the “new” treatment upgrades to carry the system into the next plants were obsolete, in disrepair and unable century.
    [Show full text]
  • Birding the Boston Harbor Islands
    Birding the Boston Harbor Islands John Move Introduction Boston Harbor Islands After nearly a decade of lobbying by m Representatives Gerry Studds and Joe Moakley and Senator Edward Keimedy, the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area was created by an Act of * * Congress in 1996. Unique among sites in the National Parks system, it is managed by a partnership made up of the twelve owners and operators of the thirty islands named in the legislation together with several advocacy groups and the National Park Service (NPS) itself After a five-year process of study and public input, a management plan was recently released that will guide the park as it moves into the new millennium. Of interest to birders and to visitors in general is the recommendation that calls for increased public access to the islands. At the same time, several of the more remote islands, traditionally used by colonial nesting species, are to remain undeveloped. In operation since the early 1970s, the Boston Harbor Islands State Park, now a part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area (the name it now goes by after Native Americans objected to using the phrase “recreation area” to describe islands on which some of their ancestors were imprisoned and died), is co-managed by the Massachusetts Department of Enviromnental Management (DEM) and the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC). Currently, six of the nineteen state-owned islands make up the nucleus of the Area, hosting nearly 125,000 visitors aimually. They are staffed seasonally and are accessible by ferry and water-taxi link from Boston as well as from the North and South Shores.
    [Show full text]
  • Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Debris—Or Till—Of This Beach Contains a Large Variety Leaves in the Winter
    Dune Plants Along this trail, look for small, sandy dunes. Welcome to Thompson Island Historical Overview Northeast Trail Wormwood and jimsonweed are two plants that tolerate the dry, salty dune environments. The plants Native Americans have utilized Thompson Island for Beach Walk found here help stabilize the dunes and prevent the last 8,000 years for hunting, fishing and digging On the north side of the dock, observe the buildup of erosion. sediments along the beach: notice how the rocks vary clams, as well as for recreation. in size and weight. The northern tip of the island Seabirds David Thompson, the island’s namesake, came to receives the brunt of waves and wind. These forces hit The water offshore of this end of Thompson Island is Boston from Scotland in 1619 to establish a trading the shore and carry lighter particles southward toward a favorite haunt of migratory and year-round seabirds. post. But it was not until 1626 that Thompson the other end of the island, where some of the Take some time to observe the water and you may see succeeded in erecting one of the first permanent sediment is re-deposited. Expect to see large cobbles other waterbirds such as the American Oystercatcher, and boulders at the northernmost portion of the beach. settlements in Boston Harbor, antedating Boston by Double-crested Cormorant and Least Tern. several years. Native Americans came to Thompson’s trading post to exchange their beaver-furs and fish for High Tide Line Trees European goods and early colonial sundries. The major line of beach debris holds things that have The oak, maple and linden grove on your left is one of traveled long distances.
    [Show full text]
  • Imagining the Old Coast
    IMAGINING THE OLD COAST: HISTORY, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM IN NEW ENGLAND, 1865-2012 BY JONATHAN MORIN OLLY B.A., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 2002 A.M., BROWN UNIVERSITY, 2008 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN STUDIES AT BROWN UNIVERSITY PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND MAY 2013 © 2013 by Jonathan Morin Olly This dissertation by Jonathan Morin Olly is accepted in its present form by the Department of American Studies as satisfying the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Date: _______________ ________________________________ Steven D. Lubar, Advisor Recommended to the Graduate Council Date: _______________ ________________________________ Patrick M. Malone, Reader Date: _______________ ________________________________ Elliott J. Gorn, Reader Approved by the Graduate Council Date: _______________ ________________________________ Peter M. Weber, Dean of the Graduate School iii CURRICULUM VITAE Jonathan Morin Olly was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on April 17, 1980. He received his B.A. in History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2002, and his A.M. in Public Humanities at Brown University in 2008. He has interned for the National Museum of American History, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, and the Penobscot Marine Museum. He has also worked in the curatorial departments of the Norman Rockwell Museum and the National Heritage Museum. While at Brown he served as a student curator at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, and taught a course in the Department of American Studies on the history, culture, and environmental impact of catching and eating seafood in New England.
    [Show full text]
  • Minutes March 2, 2018 Despite a Nor'easter, the Wastewater Advisory Committee to the MWRA Met at MAPC, 60 Temple Pl., Boston
    Minutes March 2, 2018 Despite a nor’easter, the Wastewater Advisory Committee to the MWRA met at MAPC, 60 Temple Pl., Boston, MA Attendees/Contributors: WAC: Craig Allen (chair), Karen Lachmayr, Stephen Greene James Guiod (AB), Philip Ashcroft, Dan Winograd (all by phone), Karen Golmer, Martin Pillsbury, Mary Adelstein Guests: Wendy Leo, Alison Leary (City of Newton, councilor), John Reinhardt, MyRWA Staff: Andreae Downs FUTURE MEETING DATES/TOPICS NEXT: TUESDAY, April 24, 10:30am at the Waterworks Museum: MWRA Budgets and Advisory Board’s approach to the budgets over the decades. VOTES: February 2018 minutes approved CHAIRMAN’S REPORT: Next WAC meeting is at the Waterworks Museum with WSCAC (therefore, a Tuesday), and will include the Advisory Board giving a historical view of how their approach to the MWRA budgets (also presented) has changed. The May meeting is a tour of Greater Lawrence Sewer District’s co-digestion project. Discussion with WAC settled on May 4 for the tour, despite it being just over a week after the April meeting. MWRA UPDATES: As the meeting started, the predictions for flooding and rain/snow meant that MWRA was anticipating possible issues with staff getting to facilities at Deer Island and Chelsea, among other spots, and preparing for higher flows, as outlined in the Executive Director’s report and previous Board staff summary. Sean Navin was at the emergency operations center to coordinate communications with communities. ADVISORY BOARD UPDATES: Reviewing MWRA budgets and budget policy. Had an Operations meeting on wastewater metering and on community I/I funding. Discussion of amount to recommend to the MWRA Board, and discussion of the number of communities not taking advantage of the program.
    [Show full text]