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    411 year ago

    Did people just pour dirt into the sea and build on top? I’m not being sarcastic, how did this happen?

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      371 year ago

      Unironically yes they did exactly that. If memory serves a good amount came from Breeds and Bunker hill (just North of the frame).

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        241 year ago

        The fill came mostly from Needham

        The firm of Goss and Munson extended railroad lines to quarries in Needham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) away; a 35-car train carrying gravel and other fill arrived every 45 minutes, day and night.[11] When the Needham gravel pits were exhausted, additional fill was found in Canton, Dedham, Hyde Park, and Westwood.[12] William Dean Howells recalled “the beginnings of Commonwealth Avenue, and the other streets of the Back Bay, laid out with their basements left hollowed in the made land, which the gravel trains were yet making out of the westward hills.”[13]

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston