Bring a hat, water, and lunch enjoy the day. The present-day park, located only four miles from Boston, has easy access from Long Wharf in Boston or at Hingham Intermodal Center. Here is a website/ video by contractor Jay Cashman on rebuilding the Island The Island was added to the Boston Harbor Island National Park Service and now includes a visitor center, a café, marine docks and moorings, and five miles of hiking trails.
The Island is now 114 acres big, with two drumlins 157 feet high, and offers spectacular views of the Harbor and Mass Bay, with plenty of park benches to sit and enjoy the day. The Island was covered with the dirt from these new tunnels to create a beautiful and safe new landscape. In 1980, a vast project called The Big Dig to bury an interstate cutting downtown through Boston was started. Range Lighthouse 1903įollow the kink for details and history about the Range lights, dating back from 1892 to when they were decommissioned in 1913ġ980 to Present Day A bird’s eye view of the Island during reconstruction In 1903, a set of Range lights were installed on the Island to help guide ships between Inner Harbor entrance and Nix Mate. In the 1950s, a bulldozer disappeared into the Island debris and was never found. A city trash Incinerator was added, and it continued as a dump until it was closed in 1959. In 1857 the Island began to be used as a horse dump for Boston. In the 1600s, the Europeans started using the Island for farming and to raise livestock. The European settlers first used the island for farming, but as Boston grew in size, Spectacle Island began to be used for less reputable practices. This study also has a fascinating chart showing how the Massachusetts Bay coastline has been carved out from the melting glaciers over the last 10000 years. A second archaeological study that was done in the 1980s for Big Dig shows Native Indians’ activity on the southeast corner of the Island and other areas around Boston. These Paleoindians became the first known inhabitants in Massachusetts they arrived from Asia after crossing over the Bering land bridge. Here is one archaeological study based on vegetation going back to the arrival of the Paleoindians. Archaeological studies have found evidence of activities on the Island from the Native American Indians and even in the prehistoric periods dating back over 12,000 years ago. The island was finally restored into a beautiful park in Boston Harbor which opened in June 2006. Spectacle island has been used in many different ways and people over the centuries.
Spectacle Island as seen from Castle Island Introduction
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