Special Topics: Engineering Boston

Provides historical and locational information on the Mill Dam and Cross Street Dam.

In this pamphlet Uriah Cotting advocated for the building of a causeway and mill dam that would provide water power for Boston grain mills

A short account of the Mill Dam; a causeway built between 1818 and 1821 to supply water power for industrial use.

Boston historian Anthony Sammarco talks about the building of the Mill Dam and subsequent land filling (4:50).

Maps and engraved illustrations from the Digital Public Library of America.

This Mass. Historical Commission webpage provides a map of the mill pond's location as well as artifacts uncovered from the site by archaeologists.

Provides a history of Boston Common and the Mill Dam. It also weighs the question of constructing a Public Garden or of selling the newly filled land.

This report recommended the filling of the Back Bay with clean sand and gravel.

Discusses property rights of the Boston & Roxbury Mill Corporation. See pp. 11 and 13 for maps of the Mill Dam's location.

Provides historical and locational information on the Mill Dam and Cross Street Dam.

See pp. 3-4 for information on the Cross Dam.