Anyone know what happened to that isthmus that used to form the base of the old town of Boston in the colonial era?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bo...775bsmall1.png
I was looking on google maps for it, but can find no trace of it. Presumably, some significant fill occurred and the port channels re-engineered long ago. Anyone familiar with it?
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Yes, very significant amounts of landfilling has occurred since Colonial times. From the central part of Boston Common on west, the entire Back Bay area is landfill. The best that I can tell, that isthmus was about where Tremont St crosses the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90), now.
Mike
There are several great books about this, most notably Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston and Boston: A Topographical History. Basically, they filled and filled and filled some more.
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