Hoosac Docks: Foreign Trade Terminal. A Special History Study for Boston National Historical Park

摘要

The Boston National Historical Park contains within its boundaries adjacent to the Charlestown Navy Yard, a part of an historically important dock area. The piers there formerly served the railroad that coursed the Hoosac Tunnel and connected New England to the American West. The Tunnel, completed in 1875, is the 'Great Bore' of American railroad annals whose backers sought to divert western freight from the port of New York to the port of Boston. Evidence of the historical terminal at the peak of its activity - the late 1890's - has survived the rebuilding of the piers in the 1940s and the more recent use of the waterfront area for recreational and other purposes. The regional historical significance of the area has warranted nominating these structures and the right-of-way for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.