Quabbin Reservoir cemetery photographs, 1930.

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Quabbin Reservoir cemetery photographs, 1930.

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The Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission was created for the purpose of extending and increasing the water supply to the Massachusetts metropolitan water system (St 1926, c 375). The commission was authorized to take property in the watersheds of the Swift and Ware rivers to develop the Quabbin Reservoir. Preparation for construction of the reservoir included disinterment, transfer, and reburial from cemeteries in the area to be flooded to the Quabbin Park Cemetery or other locations. Photographs provide evidence of the original gravesite and marker prior to removal.

0.16 cubic ft. (ca. 400 photographs : negative ; 10 x 13 cm. in 4 boxes)0.7 cubic ft. (ca. 1000 photographs : negative ; 13 x 18 cm. in 2 doc. boxes)

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Maps prepared by the Massachusetts Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission. From the description of Quabbin Reservoir maps of proposed site collection, 1926, 1933. (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 52807502 The Western Massachusetts towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, Prescott, and North Dana were abolished in 1938 to allow the Swift River Valley to be flooded, thereby creating the Quabbin Reservoir to provide Boston with water. From...