A River in Time: Environmental Histories on the Neponset River
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Neponset "Now"
Further Reading

Project Team: Laura Clerx1, Conevery Valencius2, Asa Ackerly3  

Neponset River 1634
 

1634

Henry Pelham plan of Boston 1777
 

1777

Sanborn Map Part of Dorchester
 

1888

Boston and its Vicinity USGS
 

1900

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Project Team Contributions: 1 -- Site Creator and Content Author, 2 -- Content Author*, 3 -- Research Contributor  

 *Narrative text authored by Dr. Conevery Valencius is attributed in the embedded StoryMap in the "Telling Stories" page. 

Maps

Rights: All of the historical maps featured above are in the Public Domain.

  1. William Wood. The south-part of New England, as it is planted this yeare, 1634 [map]. Printed by T. Cotes for I. Bellamie, 1634. From Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Digital Collections. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2000023 (accessed May 10, 2022).
  2. Henry Pelham. A Plan of Boston in New England with its environs; including Milton, Dorchester, Roxbury, Brooklin, Cambridge, Medford, Charlestown, parts of Malden and Chelsea with the military works constructed in those places in the years 1775 and 1776 [map]. London: Published by Henry Pelham According to Act of Parliament, June 2, 1777. From Harvard Library, Map Collection. https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/scanned-maps/catalog/44-990093723370203941 (accessed May 10, 2022).
  3. Sanborn Map Company. Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Volume 4. Sanborn Map Company, 1888. From the Library of Congress, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3764bm.g03693188804/?sp=2&r=0.453,0.517,0.494,0.187,0 (accessed May 10, 2022).
  4. H.M. Wilson, Massachusetts Topographical Survey Committee, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Frank Sutton, J.H. Wheat, A.C. Roberts, J.H. Jennings, J.W. Thom., Robert Muldrow, E.B. Clark, A.H. Bumstead, T.C. Basinger, C.L. Hoopes, and "various city, town, and park surveys." Boston and its Vicinity, 1898-1900. United States Geological Survey, 1903. From the University of Texas at Austen, Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection. https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/massachusetts/ (accessed May 10, 2022).