WRITINGS
   
1835
actress Fanny Kemble visits Blue Hill and Granite Rail Quarry in her Journal (8 pgs)
   
1887
excerpts from Rev. Albert K. Teele's History of Milton, Massachusetts 1640-1887 (46 pg and one map)
   
1891
Sylvester Baxter's A Massachusetts Forest from Garden and Forest magazine, a proposal for a park in the Blue Hills (7 pg essay)
   
1892
Chapter 342 of the Acts of 1892 (an act establishing a metropolitan park commission)
 
1893
Charles Eliot's Report of the Landscape Architect for the Metropolitan Park Commission (28 pg essay with maps, drawings, and photos)
   
1893
Chapter 407 of the Acts of 1893 (the Metropolitan Park Commission Act)
   
1894
Chapter 288 of the Acts of 1894 (an act authorizing parkway construction)
   
1895
E. G. Chamberlain's Names of the Blue Hills from the Boston Transcript (2 pg essay)
   
1895
Warren H. Manning's reforestation proposal for the Blue Hills (14 pg essay)
   
1898
Four walking tours from Edwin M. Bacon's Walks and Rides in the Country Round About Boston (24 pg essay)


MAPS
 
1635 Smith
1685 Visscher
1755 Jefferys
1776 Jefferys
1796 National Atlas
         
1804 Arrowsmith
1828 Haywood RR
1847 Bouve RR
1858 Walling
1860 Walling/Dutton
         
1871 Walling
1885 Chamberlain
1893 Eliot
1894 USGS
1905 harbor pano
         
1910 metro parks
1941 USGS
1948 USGS
1986 USGS
2004 DCR trail map
         
 
FBH
2006 ski area
2006 Google Earth
2006 DCR