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Natick officials have started the process of removing the Charles River Dam, which is expected to cost about $1.5 million.
The dam controls the surface level of the river basin as well its tributaries upstream, including the Back Bay Fens and Muddy River and to prevent sea water from entering the Charles River freshwater basin during high tides. It replaced the 1910 Charles River Dam upstream, now the site of the Boston Museum of Science. The 1910 dam includes two ...
Nearly 1,000 people weighed in on community use and recreation near Natick's Charles River Dam, with many wanting to see improved public access.
Site of a ferry established in 1630; [2] obsoleted by the Charles River Bridge, built 1786 (New) Charles River Dam: pedestrians and bikers 1978 Fish ladder, pumps and three locks for navigation. Site of the Warren Bridge, built 1828, demolished 1962.
Natick was settled in 1651 by John Eliot, a Puritan missionary born in Widford, England, who received a commission and funds from England's Long Parliament to settle the Massachusett Indians called Praying Indians on both sides of the Charles River, on land deeded from the settlement at Dedham. Natick was the first of Eliot's network of praying ...
Bosse Sports Lounge is one of four planned restaurants in the new space. The complex will also include Bosse Enoteca, which will serve artisanal pizzas, gourmet dishes and fine wines.
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 park is part of the "lost half mile" of the Charles River, between the 1910 Charles River Dam, now the site of the Museum of Science, and the new Charles River Dam completed in 1978. The park opening was delayed for several years by a number of logistical and bureaucratic issues, but its design, including small islands, bridges and kayaking ...