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In 1890, the Federal government ceded Castle Island (excluding the fort) to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The city of Boston commenced filling the marshes separating Castle Island from South Boston in 1890 with the intention of creating green space and promenades. The process was finished in the 1920s and Castle Island ceased to be an island.
In the late 1960s, the University of Massachusetts Boston leased the building and converted it into the university's first library. [5] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 [ 1 ] and designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1977.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
Castle Island is a peninsula in South Boston on the shore of Boston Harbor. In 1928, Castle Island was connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land and is thus no longer an island. [ 3 ] It has been the site of a fortification since 1634, [ 3 ] and is currently a 22-acre (8.9 ha) recreation site and the location of Fort Independence .
It coordinated the coast defenses of Boston, Massachusetts from 1895 to 1950, beginning with the Endicott program. These included both coast artillery forts and underwater minefields. The command originated circa 1895 as the Boston Artillery District, was renamed Coast Defenses of Boston in 1913, and again renamed Harbor Defenses of Boston in 1925.
The 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party was already on the boil, with all sorts of commemorative programs on Cape and a splashy reenactment slated for Dec. 16 at the Boston Tea Party Ships ...
In 1868 Roxbury was annexed to Boston. [2] In 1869, the 70-foot-tall (21 m) Cochituate Standpipe was built atop Fort Hill by the Cochichuate Water Company. Eventually the water tower was abandoned with other expansions to the Boston water system. By the 1960s, the tower fell into disrepair. The original cast iron balcony was removed.
Boston Early Music Festival, Boston Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Youth, The History Project, and Culinary Historians of Boston [166] founded. The Channel (nightclub) opens. Sister city relationship established with Barcelona, Spain. Population: 562,994. 1981 Boston Society of Film Critics, Dance Umbrella, [167] and Boston Area Feminist ...