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Title: Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good /Charles William Eliot
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape gardening
Publisher: Boston :Houghton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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erville, the reservation covering 290 acres. Below that point the borders of the river have been claimed, as Charles foresaw, by railroads, factories, and wharves. He thought it desirable that the shores of Maiden River and the valley and mouth of Island End Creek should be secured; but these were subordinate proposals. Nothing has as yet been done about Maiden River, and the Island End tract is now occupied by huge commercial structures. Two salt creeks in this neighborhood, — Snake Creek and a branch of Belle IsleCreek, — which Charles proposed should be rescued for public use, have been saved by the construction of the Revere BeachParkway. Only the eastern shores of the two Mystic ponds have become public property; the western shores, the possession of which Charles thought essential to the preservation of the beauty of these ponds, still remain in private hands. The banks of Charles River have been resumed by the public to an extent which Charles did not venture to propose BOSTON, 1892
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BOSTON, 1902

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