[PDF] Elizur Wrights Appeals For The Middlesex Fells And The Forests eBook

Author : Elizur Wright
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Forests and forestry
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Publications by and about Elizur Wright, focusing on his work with the insurance industry. Includes article in the Medford Mercury (1931) reporting on efforts to fund a memorial chair for the study of insurance at a major U.S. university; two books by Wright: Traps Baited with Orphan or What is the Matter with Life Insurance (1877) and Elizur Wright's Appeals for the Middlesex Fells and the Forests with a Sketch of What He Did for Both, by his daughter Ellen M. Wright (1904); and publications about Elizur Wright containing 7 issues of the American Conservationist published by American Conservation Company (1931-1932).

Author : Alison C. Simcox and Douglas L. Heath
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 146712270X

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Comprising over 2,500 acres of forest, wetlands, and rugged hills, Middlesex Fells, just seven miles north of Boston, is one of the nation's first state parks and contains the world's first public land trust, Virginia Wood. For centuries, the Fells provided rich hunting and fishing grounds for Native Americans. In 1632, Gov. John Winthrop and others explored the area and named the largest pond Spot Pond because of the many islands and rocks protruding through the ice. The Fells was used for farming and timber, and Spot Pond Brook became the focus of industrial activity, which culminated in 1858 with the Hayward Rubber Mills. In the 1880s and 1890s, Middlesex Fells was a key property in the Boston metropolitan park movement driven by conservationists Wilson Flagg, Elizur Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles Eliot, George Davenport, and Sylvester Baxter. In 1894, the Metropolitan Park Commission began acquiring Fells land. Electric trolleys crossed the Fells from 1910 to 1946, and in 1959, with the car culture in control, Interstate 93 was built through the area. Today, the Fells, as envisioned by its founders, is a forested haven for city dwellers.

Author : Michael Rawson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0674266579

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Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships—social, cultural, political, economic, and legal—were established during America’s first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one of the earliest cities in America, often led the nation in designing them. A richly textured cultural and social history of the development of nineteenth-century Boston, this book provides a new environmental perspective on the creation of America’s first cities. Eden on the Charles explores how Bostonians channeled country lakes through miles of pipeline to provide clean water; dredged the ocean to deepen the harbor; filled tidal flats and covered the peninsula with houses, shops, and factories; and created a metropolitan system of parks and greenways, facilitating the conversion of fields into suburbs. The book shows how, in Boston, different class and ethnic groups brought rival ideas of nature and competing visions of a “city upon a hill” to the process of urbanization—and were forced to conform their goals to the realities of Boston’s distinctive natural setting. The outcomes of their battles for control over the city’s development were ultimately recorded in the very fabric of Boston itself. In Boston’s history, we find the seeds of the environmental relationships that—for better or worse—have defined urban America to this day.