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The Charles River (Massachusett: Quinobequin), sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles, is an 80-mile-long (129 km) river in eastern Massachusetts.It flows northeast from Hopkinton to Boston along a highly meandering route, that doubles back on itself several times and travels through 23 cities and towns before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. [1]
The Charles River in Massachusetts has a significant number of boathouses on its banks, from its mouth at Boston Harbor to its source at Echo Lake in Hopkinton.. The boathouses are mostly situated along the Boston and Cambridge banks of the Charles River Basin, upstream as far as the Arsenal Street Bridge, and downstream as far as the Charles River Dam.
The 1978 Charles River Dam, located behind the TD Garden, controls the water level in the river basin.An earlier dam (see Charles River Dam Bridge), located beneath the Museum of Science, was completed in 1910 with the purpose of creating a fresh water river basin and riverfront park in Boston and Cambridge.
Hemlock Gorge Reservation is a state-owned, public recreation area and urban wild comprising 23 acres (9.3 ha) on the Charles River in Newton and Needham, Massachusetts. The reservation is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. [2]
The western portion of Soldiers Field Road was one of the first to be built, as part of the Charles River Speedway, an early racing oval, between 1899 and 1910. Other roads completed by 1910 include the listed portions of North Beacon Street, Greenough Boulevard, and Charles River Road. Nonantum Road was built between 1910 and 1931.
(Old) Charles River Dam Bridge: Route 28 (Charles River Dam Rd) 1910 25 meters (82 ft) [1] The Boston Museum of Science is located on this bridge Longfellow Bridge: Route 3 (Main St/Cambridge St) MBTA Red Line: 1907
Moseley's on the Charles, located on the banks of the Charles River in Dedham, Massachusetts, was the oldest continuous-running ballroom in the country. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded in 1905 by Elisha Moseley, [ 2 ] it originally functioned as a summer canoe house in addition to the ballroom.
A lock on the Charles River Dam. The dam's walkway is the site of the "Charlestown Bells", an interactive art installation by Paul Matisse, consisting of a set of chimes mounted on the railing that passers-by can strike. [3] The work was refurbished in 2013 after it had fallen into disrepair.