New Bridge to Cambridge Across the Charles River Basin from West Chester Park: Hearing Before the Committee on Harbors and...

New Bridge to Cambridge Across the Charles River Basin from West Chester Park: Hearing Before the Committee on Harbors and...
ISBN-10
0266597521
ISBN-13
9780266597520
Category
Reference
Pages
32
Language
English
Published
2017-10-22
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
Massachusetts General Court

Description

Excerpt from New Bridge to Cambridge Across the Charles River Basin From West Chester Park: Hearing Before the Committee on Harbors and Lands, March 28, 1887 The proposition before you is for such legislation as will enable that basin to be bridged. The expanse of two and a. Half miles of water between these two great cities has remained unbridged for ninety-three years. The West Boston bridge was Opened for the first time in 1793, and from that day to this, that large water basin has remained without any means of communication across it between West Boston bridge at one end, and the bridge in Brighton at Cottage Farm Station, at the other end. Meantime these two cities have grown, Cambridge from a popula tion of twenty-four hundred to sixty thousand, and Boston from a population of only eighteen thousand and odd to nearly or quite four hundred thousand. I need not waste your time by stating how this bridge will shorten the distance between the two cities, when you consider for a moment that upon this broad avenue, and upon its tributary avenues running from one city to the other (and the small map which has been laid before you shows these small the north side of Charles River, in Cambridge and in Somerville. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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