Boston's Back Bay : the story of America's greatest nineteenth-century landfill project

Boston's Back Bay : the story of America's greatest nineteenth-century landfill project / William A. Newman and Wilfred E. Holton.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newman, William A.
Other Authors: Holton, Wilfred E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Hanover : Northeastern University Press ; University Press of New England, c2006.
Subjects:
Sanitary landfills > Massachusetts > Boston > History > 19th century.
Back Bay (Boston, Mass.) > History > 19th century.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Prehistory of the Back Bay
  • Why fill the Back Bay?
  • Planning and financing the Back Bay Landfill
  • Locomotives and steam shovels
  • Gravel trains and bold entrepreneurs
  • A shocking development fails to derail the project
  • Environmental problems and zoning.

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