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The 1978 Charles River Dam, located behind the TD Garden, controls the water level in the river basin.An earlier dam (see Charles River Dam Bridge), located beneath the Museum of Science, was completed in 1910 with the purpose of creating a fresh water river basin and riverfront park in Boston and Cambridge.
The Charles River in Massachusetts has a significant number of boathouses on its banks, from its mouth at Boston Harbor to its source at Echo Lake in Hopkinton.. The boathouses are mostly situated along the Boston and Cambridge banks of the Charles River Basin, upstream as far as the Arsenal Street Bridge, and downstream as far as the Charles River Dam.
The Watertown Arsenal was a major American arsenal located on the northern shore of the Charles River in Watertown, Massachusetts. The site is now registered on the ASCE 's List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks and on the US National Register of Historic Places , and it is home to a park, restaurants, mixed use office space, and formerly ...
Photo of Esplanade, rear of Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1900-1920; Historic American Engineering Record. View of pier-cap and pedestal at Pier 13, west side, Boston Embankment and pedestrian stairway in background - Harvard Bridge, Spanning Charles River at Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 20th century
Site of Boston and Lowell Railroad Charles River Bridge, built 1835, first movable railroad bridge in the United States [3 42°22′8.29″N 71°03′54.96″W / 42.3689694°N 71.0652667°W / 42.3689694; -71.0652667 ( MBTA Commuter
The western portion of Soldiers Field Road was one of the first to be built, as part of the Charles River Speedway, an early racing oval, between 1899 and 1910. Other roads completed by 1910 include the listed portions of North Beacon Street, Greenough Boulevard, and Charles River Road. Nonantum Road was built between 1910 and 1931.
The dam controls the surface level of the river basin as well its tributaries upstream, including the Back Bay Fens and Muddy River and to prevent sea water from entering the Charles River freshwater basin during high tides. It replaced the 1910 Charles River Dam upstream, now the site of the Boston Museum of Science. The 1910 dam includes two ...
The Upper Charles River Reservation is a Massachusetts state park encompassing portions of the banks of the Charles River between the Watertown Dam in Watertown and Riverdale Park in Dedham and the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. [2] The park is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. It includes land in the ...