Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1891/00/00 | John F Fitzgerald | Politician | Councilman John Fitzgerald secures funding for a park in Boston's North End neighborhood. | |||
1895/00/00 | Charles Eliot | Landscape Architect | Charles Eliot designs terraces on a steep hillside to provide a park in the North End, a retreat for "the slum people ... unclean beings, children pushing everywhere and swarming in every street and alley". | |||
1897/00/00 | Perkins and White | Contractors | Two granite terraces are built, 1897-1913, by Perkins and White on the north edge of Copp's Hill Burying Ground, connecting Charter Street to North End Park, a bathing beach designed by Charles Eliot. | |||
1919/01/15 | Crowds watch as a wave of industrial grade molasses floods the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The tragedy kills 21 and injures dozens. |
Particulars for Copp's Hill Terrace: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Area of Significance | Community Planning and Development |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Historic Use | Outdoor recreation |
Historic Use | Park |
Sight Category | Site |
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