Historic Boston Shoreline

Item Information

Title:
Historic Boston Shoreline
Description:
This dataset represents the extents of Boston’s historic shoreline. It covers the City of Boston and includes some parts of Cambridge, Somerville, Chelsea and Winthrop. This data is structured as temporal snapshots capturing the shoreline extent at different years. The years included in the dataset are 1635, 1795, 1852, 1880, 1916, 1934, 1950, 1995. Because this data was previously unavailable and heavily requested, when it was re-digitized for the Atlas of Boston History Project, the LMEC reached out to the book project cartographers, in order to preserve the re-vectorized data.
Creator:
MapWorks
Date:
2019
Format:
Data sets
Genre:
Polygon data
Geospatial data
Location:
Boston Public Library
Collection (local):
GIS Data Sets
Subjects:
Coastal mapping
Coasts
1630–1995
Places:
Somerville
Cambridge
Charles River
Boston
Permalink:
https://ark-dc3dev.bpl.org/ark:/50959/t722hz19w
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is in the public domain under a Creative Commons No Rights Reserved License (CC0).
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Referenced by:
The Atlas of Boston History (published work)
All Over the Map: How Boston Made Itself Bigger (published work)
Notes:
This data represents the historic state of the Boston shoreline in the year 1995. It was digitally derived in 2019 from born-digital maps published in 1995.
Identifier:
ark:/76611/dkircrh2v