Day boulevard
| William J. Day Boulevard Day boulevard
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| Basic data | |
| place | Boston |
| District | Dorchester, South Boston |
| Created | 1890s |
| Hist. Names | Strandway |
| Connecting roads | Morrissey Boulevard |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Road design | Carson Beach, M Street Beach, Pleasure Bay |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 2.6 mi (4.2 km ) |
The William J. Day Boulevard , or short- Day Boulevard , is a parkway in Boston in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . The street is administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston .
Route
The street begins on Morrissey Boulevard and Kosciuszko Circle in northern Dorchester . From there, the parkway runs for a length of 2.6 mi (4.2 km ) in a northeast direction through the borough of South Boston along the beaches of western and northern Dorchester Bay . In its eastern section, the road runs through the South Boston Boat Clubs Historic District and Marine Park before ending at the Castle Island peninsula .
history
The Day Boulevard was originally called Strandway and at the time of construction in the late 19th century was intended to form the easternmost part of the Emerald Necklace , which had been created by Frederick Law Olmsted . Plans to Franklin Park on a plane passing through Dorchester Parkway named Dorchesterway with the Strandway connect to were not implemented, so that the route as Columbia Road was reported. The southern of the two streets that formed Columbia Road was renamed William J. Day Boulevard in 1950 in honor of a well-known South Boston politician who died that year . William Day was the father of the politician Louise Day Hicks , who represented South Boston in the United States Congress from 1971 to 1973 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Boston, Massachusetts. Street Laying-Out Dept. (Ed.): A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston . City of Boston Printing Dept., Boston 1910, OCLC 300506220 ( online in Google Book Search).
- ^ Josiah Quincy: Address of Josiah Quincy, mayor of Boston, to the city council, January 4, 1897 . Rockwell and Churchill, Boston 1897, OCLC 27872464 , p. 24–27 ( online in Google Book Search).
- ^ John C. Phillips and others vs. the City of Boston . In: Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court. (Ed.): Massachusetts reports: cases argued and determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts . Vol. 209. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston 1912, OCLC 1604226 , pp. 329–333 ( online in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Mark Feeney: Louise Day Hicks, icon of tumult, dies. In: Boston Globe . October 22, 2003, accessed September 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Christopher Reed: Louise Day Hicks. Boston politician who won herself many enemies by her position on forced school bussing. In: The Guardian . October 29, 2003, accessed September 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Louise Day Hicks. Representative, 1971-1973, Democrat from Massachusetts. (No longer available online.) Women in Congress, archived from the original on March 11, 2016 ; accessed on September 19, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Castle Island, Pleasure Bay, M Street Beach and Carson Beach. Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, accessed September 18, 2012 .
Coordinates: 42 ° 19 '51.2 " N , 71 ° 1' 50.4" W.
