We keep reaping benefits from the Greenbush project. Now, belatedly, the town of Weymouth is progressing on the “Smelt Brook Daylighting Project”.
As part of the agreement for building Greenbush stations the environmental dep demanded conditions of environmental improvement in and around the tracks.
This meant Hingham’s better flow to the Home Meadow salt marsh, already achieved and this effort to uncover a concreted over Smelt Brook (Thank you Army Corps) in Weymouth Landing, home of the former Boston Gas and work place of family friend Mr. McGee.
Take a look at what they are up to in this figure from this document.
They are digging out and making accessible over landscaped park lands the area outlined in blue. Pretty cool.
I collected some pictures from 1893 taken from a steeple tower at about the site of the F.L Wright Connector above and sketched a panorama view of what it looked like at that time.
Confluence of the Monatiquot and the Smelt, Braintree / Weymouth MA – Early 1890’s copyright John Daly all rights reserved.
“The Landing” where the Monatiquot River, left above, and the Smelt Brook, right above converge to form the Fore River dividing Braintree on the left from Weymouth on the right. The Rhines Lumber Yard appears to the right, with schooners unloading, and Watson’s Fore River Engine Company on the far side of the river, center. From a series of photographs taken from the belfry of the Union Church around 1890 and featured in the books Images of America Braintree , John A Denney ©2010 and Postcard History Series, Weymouth, William J. and Elaine a Pepe, © 2004
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