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During the 1740s, the Battery was extended into the harbor and was defended by thirty-five guns. In 1764, John Rowe bought the land and built the first Rowes Wharf, which extended a short distance into Boston Harbor, and in 1765 Foster's Wharf was built on the site of the old Battery. Foster's Wharf was originally called "Apthorp's Wharf".
In the lobby of Building 114 at the Boston Navy Yard is an exhibition of boat models, photographs and boat building tools. [27] The Maritime Museum at Battery Wharf [28] was built by the developers of the Battery Wharf Hotel [29] as "mitigation" under the state's Chapter 91 law, [5] to compensate the public for private use of waterfront land.
Boston Water Taxis provides seasonal, on-demand water taxi service from five North End docks: Long Wharf, Yacht Haven Marina, Sargents Wharf, Burroughs Wharf, and Battery Wharf. [ 51 ] In 2017, the City unveiled a two-way protected cycle track on the east side of Commercial Street. [ 52 ]
The Harbor Towers are two 40-story residential towers located on the waterfront of Boston, Massachusetts, in between the New England Aquarium and the Rowes Wharf mixed-use development. Harbor Towers I, the taller of the two towers, stands at 400 ft (121.9 m), while Harbor Towers II rises 396 ft (120.7 m).
A 1945 map of the East Point gun batteries. The East Point Batteries, located in Nahant, Massachusetts, were part of the Harbor Defenses of Boston during World War II. Three separate gun batteries were built: Battery Murphy (two 16-inch guns), Battery 206 (two 6-inch guns), and a temporary 2-gun battery of 155 mm artillery.
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Map of the city of Boston (1775), showing the position of Hancock's Wharf at the North-East, between Long Wharf and North Battery. Hancock's Wharf was a dock on the waterfront of Boston, Massachusetts in the 1700s, owned by John Hancock, and previously his uncle, Thomas Hancock. Hancock's Wharf began from near the foot of Fleet Street and the ...