The History of Land Fill in Boston

The History of Land Fill in Boston

A series of five maps illustrating the growth of Boston through the use of landfill, showing the original Shawmut Peninsula in 1630, the filling of the Mill Pond (Causeway Street really was a causeway), the filling of the Great Cove, South Cove, and West Cove, and the massive addition of the Back Bay after the Civil War.

Tide Power in Colonial Boston

Online exhibit from the West End Museum in Boston on the use of tidal ponds (like the Mill Pond filled in with the top of Beacon Hill in the first decade of the 1800s) to power mills.