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| name=UPHAMS CORNER
| name=Uphams Corner
| image=Outbound train at Uphams Corner.JPG
| image=Outbound train at Uphams Corner station, March 2022.JPG
| image_caption=Outbound train leaving Uphams Corner
| caption=An outbound train at Uphams Corner station in March 2022
| address=691 Dudley Street<br>[[Dorchester, Massachusetts|Dorchester, MA]] 02125-2204
| address=691 Dudley Street
| borough=[[Dorchester, Massachusetts|Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts]]
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'''Uphams Corner''' is a commuter rail station on the [[Fairmount Line]] of the [[MBTA Commuter Rail]] system, located on Dudley Street in the [[Uphams Corner]] area of the [[Dorchester, Boston|Dorchester]] neighborhood of [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. The station has been fully wheelchair accessible with two full-length high-level platforms and ramps to the street, which were added during a construction project that finished in 2007.<ref name=april2012>{{cite web |url=http://www.ctps.org/bostonmpo/5_meetings_and_events/2_past/2012/pdfs/4.12_SIP_April_Update.pdf |title=State Implementation Plan – Transit Commitments Monthly Status Report |date=19 April 2012 |publisher=Massachusetts Department of Transportation |accessdate=19 June 2012}}</ref>
'''Uphams Corner station''' is an [[MBTA Commuter Rail]] station in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. It serves the [[Fairmount Line]]. It is located on Dudley Street in the [[Uphams Corner]] area of the [[Dorchester, Boston|Dorchester]] neighborhood. It was reopened in 1979 after the line had been closed for 35 years. The station is fully [[MBTA accessibility|accessible]] with two full-length high-level platforms and ramps to the street, which were added during a construction project that finished in 2007.


==History==
==History==
===Original station===
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[[File:Uphams Corner station.JPG|thumb|left|250px|The station's full-length accessible high-level platforms were added in the 2006 reconstruction]]
[[File:Staircase construction for new Dudley Street station, August 1907.jpg|thumb|left|Construction of the new station in 1907]]
Service on the Fairmount Line (as the Dorchester Branch of the [[Norfolk County Railroad]] and later the [[ New York and New England Railroad]] and [[ New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad]]) began in 1855 and lasted until 1944. The service included a stop at Uphams Corner.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=8418 |title=Boston 1873 |publisher=Ward Maps |date=1873 |author=Johnson |accessdate=10 May 2012}}</ref> The station was originally known as Dudley Street; it may have been later changed to avoid confusion with [[Dudley Square (MBTA station)|Dudley Street Terminal]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dorchesteratheneum.org/page.php?id=1905 |title=Railroad Stations in Dorchester |publisher=Dorchester Atheneum |date=26 December 2009 |author=Leo S. |accessdate=10 May 2012}}</ref>
Service on the Fairmount Line (as the Dorchester Branch of the [[Norfolk County Railroad]] and later the [[New York and New England Railroad]] and [[New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad]]) began in 1855, although it was frequently out of service until 1867.<ref name=sne /> The service included a stop at '''Stoughton Street''' near Uphams Corner; a '''Cottage Street''' station may have also been briefly located a block to the north.<ref>{{cite book |title=Fairmount Line Feasibility Study: Task One:Assessment of Existing Conditions (Draft) |date=October 15, 2001 |author=KKO and Associates |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pv43v |title=Atlas of the county of Suffolk, Massachusetts : vol. 3rd including Boston and Dorchester : from actual surveys and official records |year=1874 |publisher=G.M. Hopkins & Co. |pages=44–45 |chapter=Plate J}}</ref> The station was renamed '''Dudley Street''' after the street was renamed between Brook Avenue (the Roxbury/Dorchester border) and Uphams Corner in 1874.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pv51j |title=City atlas of Boston, Massachusetts : complete in one volume : from official records, private plans and actual surveys |year=1882 |publisher=G.M. Hopkins & Co.|chapter=Plate 28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/recordofstreetsabost/page/161 |page=161 |title=A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston |year=1910 |publisher=City of Boston |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

Elimination of the busy Dudley Street grade crossing was long desired, but proved difficult because changing the grade of Dudley Street required modifying several nearby cross streets and numerous buildings.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75234406/the-boston-globe/ |title=Abolition of the Dudley-St Crossing of Great Interest to Dorchester People |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=March 3, 1904 |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Construction to raise the tracks and lower Dudley Street began around September 1906.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75267737/the-boston-globe/ |title=Nearly 300 Men Busy at the Dudley-St Crossing |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=December 2, 1906 |page=26 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> A temporary streetcar bypass track, railroad trestle, and station opened in January 1907.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75325696/the-boston-globe/ |title=Making Way for New Trestle Bridge |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=January 1, 1907 |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=jan13>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75333411/the-boston-globe/ |title=Changes Because of Grade Crossing Work at Dudley-St Steam Railroad Station |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=January 13, 1907 |page=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The railroad initially intended to continue using the 54-year-old wooden station building, which was insufficient to handle the 2,700 daily passengers at the station.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75333897/the-boston-globe/ |title=Want A Stone Station |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=March 15, 1907 |page=17 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=may1907>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75333969/the-boston-globe/ |title=Station Built 54 Years Ago |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=May 16, 1907 |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> After a May 1907 hearing, the railroad agreed to build a new stone station.<ref name=may1907 /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75461512/the-boston-globe/ |title=Massive Bridge Assumes Shape at Dudley-St Crossing |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=June 20, 1907 |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
[[File:Dudley Street (Midland Division) station, April 1909.jpg|thumb|left|The 1909-built Dudley Street station]]
The grade crossing elimination was completed in 1908.<ref name=april1909 /> It cost $500,000 ({{inflation|US-GDP|500000|1907|fmt=eq|r=-5}}) and modified the grade of the tracks for nearly a mile from Massachusetts Avenue to Bird Street.<ref name=jan13 /> The new stone station opened on April 14, 1909, at a cost of $18,000 ({{inflation|US-GDP|18000|1907|fmt=eq|r=-3}}), then serving 65 trains per day. Located on the east side of the tracks, it was {{convert|72x27|feet}} in size with a {{convert|45x25|feet|adj=on}} waiting room, a ticket and telegraph office, and a baggage room. It was made of red brick with a concrete foundation, brownstone base, and limestone trim.<ref name=april1909>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75461815/the-boston-globe/ |title=Dudley St Has New Station |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=April 14, 1909 |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> A pedestrian tunnel under the tracks connected the platforms.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pv886|page=Plate 4 |no-pp=yes |year=1910 |title=Atlas of the City of Boston, Dorchester |publisher=G. W. Bromley and Co.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75461668/the-boston-globe/ |title=Transformation Attending the Work on Grade Crossing at Dudley-St Station |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=August 26, 1907 |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

On June 15, 1924, the station was again renamed as '''Uphams Corner''' to avoid confusion with [[Nubian station#History|Dudley Street Terminal]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75203746/the-boston-globe/ |title=Dorchester District |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=June 9, 1924 |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=jacobs>{{Cite journal |jstor=43504499 |title=Dates of Some of the Principal Events in the History of 100 Years of the Railroad in New England. 1826-1926 |first=Warren |last=Jacobs |date=October 1928 |journal=[[Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin]] |publisher=Railway and Locomotive Historical Society |volume=17 |issue=17 |pages=15–28}}</ref> Undercut by streetcars, buses, and the Elevated for decades, service on the line ended in 1944.<ref name=sne>{{cite book |title=The Rail Lines of Southern New England |last=Karr |first=Ronald Dale |publisher=Branch Line Press |year=1995 |isbn=0942147022 |pages=295–298}}</ref>
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===MBTA station===
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[[File:Uphams Corner station, April 2012.jpg|thumb|left|The station's full-length accessible high-level platforms were added in the 2006 reconstruction]]
The Dorchester Branch (also known as the Midland Route) was reopened as a bypass on November 3, 1979, during [[Southwest Corridor (Boston)|Southwest Corridor]] construction, including stops at Uphams Corner, [[Morton Street station|Morton Street]], and [[Fairmount station (MBTA)|Fairmount]].<ref name=netransit /> Uphams Corner was originally built at minimal cost, with small low-level platforms and staircases to Dudley Street. Intended to be only in service for several years, the station was not handicapped accessible.


The Dorchester Branch (also known as the Midland Route) was reopened as a bypass in November 1979 during [[Southwest Corridor (Boston)|Southwest Corridor]] construction, including stops at Uphams Corner, [[Morton Street (MBTA station)|Morton Street]], and [[Fairmount (MBTA station)|Fairmount]].<ref name=netransit /> However, Uphams Corner and Morton Street were dropped in January 1981 as part of systemwide cuts.<ref name=netransit /> Service over the route was intended to be temporary; however, it was popular with residents of the communities the line passed through. When the Southwest Corridor reopened in October 1987, the Fairmount shuttle service was retained, with Uphams Corner and Morton Street reopened.<ref name=netransit />
Uphams Corner and Morton Street were dropped effective January 30, 1981 as part of systemwide cuts.<ref name=netransit /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38328189/the_boston_globe/ |title=T changes start today |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=February 1, 1981 |page=24 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}}</ref> Service over the route was intended to be temporary; however, it was popular with residents of the communities the line passed through. When the Southwest Corridor reopened on October 5, 1987, the Fairmount shuttle service was retained, with Uphams Corner and Morton Street renovated and reopened.<ref name=netransit /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75204034/the-boston-globe/ |title=Midlands Branch commuter rail service scheduled to resume in fall |first=Alex |last=Rothenberg |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=July 14, 1987 |page=22 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>


The station was rebuilt in 2005-2007 as part of the larger [[Fairmount Line#Improvement project|Fairmount Line Improvements]] project, which also included four new stations along the line.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dotnews.com/2005/concerns-arise-over-uphams-corner-station-shutdown-details |title=Concerns Arise over Uphams Corner Station Shutdown Details |newspaper=Dorchester Reporter |date=30 March 2005 |author=O'Sullivan, Jim |accessdate=10 January 2012}}</ref> A groundbreaking was held on April 14, 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bostonmpo.org/bostonmpo/4_resources/2_transreport/archive/trpt0505.pdf |title=MBTA Begins Upgrading Fairmount Line |work=TRANSreport |date=May 2005 |publisher=Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization |accessdate=29 December 2012}}</ref> The rebuilding included new high-level platforms, ramps to Dudley Street, canopies, and new lighting and signage. The station was officially reopened on January 23, 2007.<ref name=april2012 />
The station was rebuilt in 2005–2007 as part of the larger [[Fairmount Line#Improvement project|Fairmount Line Improvements]] project, which also included four new stations along the line.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dotnews.com/2005/concerns-arise-over-uphams-corner-station-shutdown-details |title=Concerns Arise over Uphams Corner Station Shutdown Details |newspaper=Dorchester Reporter |date=March 30, 2005 |author=O'Sullivan, Jim |access-date=January 10, 2012}}</ref> A groundbreaking was held on April 14, 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bostonmpo.org/bostonmpo/4_resources/2_transreport/archive/trpt0505.pdf |title=MBTA Begins Upgrading Fairmount Line |work=TRANSreport |date=May 2005 |publisher=Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization |access-date=December 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101209182509/http://bostonmpo.org/bostonmpo/4_resources/2_transreport/archive/trpt0505.pdf |archive-date=December 9, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The rebuilding included new full-length high-level platforms, ramps to Dudley Street, canopies, and new lighting and signage. The fully [[accessible]] station was officially reopened on January 23, 2007.<ref name=april2012>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801021623/http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/17/docs/sip/April2012SIPStatusUpdate.pdf |archive-date=August 1, 2017 |url=http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/17/docs/sip/April2012SIPStatusUpdate.pdf |title=State Implementation Plan – Transit Commitments Monthly Status Report |date=April 19, 2012 |publisher=Massachusetts Department of Transportation |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.mbta.com/news/2007-01-24/uphams-corner-station-overhaul-complete |title=Uphams Corner Station Overhaul Complete |date=January 24, 2007 |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority}}</ref>


In the mid-2010s, Uphams Corner station became locally known for high rates of [[heroin]] use at the lightly used and largely unpatrolled station.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.whdh.com/story/30128883/7news-special-report-heroin-hotspot |title=7News Special Report: Heroin Hotspot |newspaper=7News |date=September 28, 2015 |last=O'Hara |first=Kelli |access-date=September 29, 2015 |archive-date=September 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929173804/http://www.whdh.com/story/30128883/7news-special-report-heroin-hotspot |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Bus connections==
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Nearby Uphams Corner has long been a transfer point between streetcar and bus lines. Two bus routes, the '''[[15 (MBTA bus)|15]]''' - Kane Square or [[Fields Corner (MBTA station)|Fields Corner Station]] - [[Ruggles (MBTA station)|Ruggles Station]] via Uphams Corner and the '''[[41 (MBTA bus)|41]]''' - Centre & Eliot Streets. - [[JFK/UMass (MBTA station)|JFK/UMass Station]] via [[Dudley (MBTA station)|Dudley Station]], Centre Street & [[Jackson Square (MBTA station)|Jackson Square Station]], serve the station directly via Dudley Street. Additionally, the '''[[191 (MBTA bus)|191]]''' - [[Mattapan (MBTA station)|Mattapan]] - [[Haymarket (MBTA station)|Haymarket]] via [[Ashmont (MBTA station)|Ashmont]], Fields Corner and Dudley route (a single early-morning round trip for fare collectors) stops at the station, as do a pair of rerouted afternoon '''[[16 (MBTA bus)|16]]''' [[Forest Hills (MBTA station)|Forest Hills Station]] - [[Andrew (MBTA station)|Andrew Station]] or UMass via Columbia Road trips for school service.<ref name=netransit /> (All other #16 trips, as well as all '''[[17 (MBTA bus)|17]]''' trips, instead stop at Uphams Corner itself, several blocks to the east of the station.)


==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/stations/default.asp?stopId=208&lat=42.31867&lng=-71.069072 MBTA - Uphams Corner]
* [https://www.mbta.com/stops/place-DB-2258 MBTA – Uphams Corner]
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* [https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3187034,-71.0690349,3a,75y,58.59h,83.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spfd5OBl3yF6esaFFiXX5dQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en Dudley Street entrance from Google Maps Street View]
* [http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/?route=FAIRMNT Fairmount Line schedule]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=42.318661,-71.068904&spn=0.003927,0.013518&z=17&layer=c&cbll=42.318545,-71.068615&panoid=zgETkc9YV4XAkrZ7c_BcUw&cbp=12,347.04,,0,1.71 Dudley Street entrance from Google Maps Street View]


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Uphams Corner
An outbound train at Uphams Corner station in March 2022
General information
Location691 Dudley Street
Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°19′09″N 71°04′07″W / 42.3191°N 71.0686°W / 42.3191; -71.0686
Line(s)Dorchester Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus transport MBTA bus: 15, 41
Construction
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone1A
History
Opened1855; November 3, 1979;[1]
October 5, 1987[1]
Closed1944; January 30, 1981[1]
RebuiltJanuary 23, 2007[2]
Previous namesStoughton Street (until 1880s)
Dudley Street (1880s–June 15, 1924)[3]
Passengers
2018151 (weekday average boardings)[4]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station
Four Corners/Geneva
toward Readville
 Fairmount Line Newmarket
toward South Station
Four Corners/Geneva
toward Forge Park/495 or Foxboro
 Franklin/​Foxboro Line
Former services
Preceding station MBTA Following station
Morton Street
toward Providence or Stoughton
 Providence/​Stoughton Line
1971-2004
 South Station
Terminus
Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station
Bird Street
toward Readville
 Boston–​Readville via Midland Branch Boston
Terminus
Location
Map

Uphams Corner station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Boston, Massachusetts. It serves the Fairmount Line. It is located on Dudley Street in the Uphams Corner area of the Dorchester neighborhood. It was reopened in 1979 after the line had been closed for 35 years. The station is fully accessible with two full-length high-level platforms and ramps to the street, which were added during a construction project that finished in 2007.

History

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Original station

[edit]
Construction of the new station in 1907

Service on the Fairmount Line (as the Dorchester Branch of the Norfolk County Railroad and later the New York and New England Railroad and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad) began in 1855, although it was frequently out of service until 1867.[5] The service included a stop at Stoughton Street near Uphams Corner; a Cottage Street station may have also been briefly located a block to the north.[6][7] The station was renamed Dudley Street after the street was renamed between Brook Avenue (the Roxbury/Dorchester border) and Uphams Corner in 1874.[8][9]

Elimination of the busy Dudley Street grade crossing was long desired, but proved difficult because changing the grade of Dudley Street required modifying several nearby cross streets and numerous buildings.[10] Construction to raise the tracks and lower Dudley Street began around September 1906.[11] A temporary streetcar bypass track, railroad trestle, and station opened in January 1907.[12][13] The railroad initially intended to continue using the 54-year-old wooden station building, which was insufficient to handle the 2,700 daily passengers at the station.[14][15] After a May 1907 hearing, the railroad agreed to build a new stone station.[15][16]

The 1909-built Dudley Street station

The grade crossing elimination was completed in 1908.[17] It cost $500,000 (equivalent to $11,900,000 in 2023) and modified the grade of the tracks for nearly a mile from Massachusetts Avenue to Bird Street.[13] The new stone station opened on April 14, 1909, at a cost of $18,000 (equivalent to $430,000 in 2023), then serving 65 trains per day. Located on the east side of the tracks, it was 72 by 27 feet (21.9 m × 8.2 m) in size with a 45-by-25-foot (13.7 m × 7.6 m) waiting room, a ticket and telegraph office, and a baggage room. It was made of red brick with a concrete foundation, brownstone base, and limestone trim.[17] A pedestrian tunnel under the tracks connected the platforms.[18][19]

On June 15, 1924, the station was again renamed as Uphams Corner to avoid confusion with Dudley Street Terminal.[20][3] Undercut by streetcars, buses, and the Elevated for decades, service on the line ended in 1944.[5]

MBTA station

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The station's full-length accessible high-level platforms were added in the 2006 reconstruction

The Dorchester Branch (also known as the Midland Route) was reopened as a bypass on November 3, 1979, during Southwest Corridor construction, including stops at Uphams Corner, Morton Street, and Fairmount.[1] Uphams Corner was originally built at minimal cost, with small low-level platforms and staircases to Dudley Street. Intended to be only in service for several years, the station was not handicapped accessible.

Uphams Corner and Morton Street were dropped effective January 30, 1981 as part of systemwide cuts.[1][21] Service over the route was intended to be temporary; however, it was popular with residents of the communities the line passed through. When the Southwest Corridor reopened on October 5, 1987, the Fairmount shuttle service was retained, with Uphams Corner and Morton Street renovated and reopened.[1][22]

The station was rebuilt in 2005–2007 as part of the larger Fairmount Line Improvements project, which also included four new stations along the line.[23] A groundbreaking was held on April 14, 2005.[24] The rebuilding included new full-length high-level platforms, ramps to Dudley Street, canopies, and new lighting and signage. The fully accessible station was officially reopened on January 23, 2007.[2][25]

In the mid-2010s, Uphams Corner station became locally known for high rates of heroin use at the lightly used and largely unpatrolled station.[26]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
  2. ^ a b "State Implementation Plan – Transit Commitments Monthly Status Report" (PDF). Massachusetts Department of Transportation. April 19, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 1, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Jacobs, Warren (October 1928). "Dates of Some of the Principal Events in the History of 100 Years of the Railroad in New England. 1826-1926". Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. 17 (17). Railway and Locomotive Historical Society: 15–28. JSTOR 43504499.
  4. ^ Central Transportation Planning Staff (2019). "2018 Commuter Rail Counts". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
  5. ^ a b Karr, Ronald Dale (1995). The Rail Lines of Southern New England. Branch Line Press. pp. 295–298. ISBN 0942147022.
  6. ^ KKO and Associates (October 15, 2001). Fairmount Line Feasibility Study: Task One:Assessment of Existing Conditions (Draft). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
  7. ^ "Plate J". Atlas of the county of Suffolk, Massachusetts : vol. 3rd including Boston and Dorchester : from actual surveys and official records. G.M. Hopkins & Co. 1874. pp. 44–45.
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