Scope and Content: The Engineering Department of the Metropolitan Park Commission was responsible for planning, engineering, and supervising construction of parkways, bridges, locks, rinks, and other recreational and park facilities under the commission’s jurisdiction.  This notebook consists of printed forms filled in by department inspectors overseeing pile driving work done on commission construction projects.
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Environmental Management, which has general care and oversight of the natural resources of the Commonwealth and adjacent waters, maintains series relating to these functions created by earlier agencies. Series was created privately to map planned recreational facilities in the Walden Pond area operated by the Fitchburg Railroad Company.
Notes: Scheduled under the department’s Division of Planning and Development. Title proper: Picnic grounds at Concord
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Scope and Content: Responsibility for water delivery and sewer systems in the Boston metropolitan area has been successively that of the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901) and Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (1889-1901); Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); Water and Sewerage Divisions, Metropolitan District Commission (1919-1985); and Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (since 1985)
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Scope and Content: To establish accurate Massachusetts town boundaries, and eventually interstate boundaries as well, beginning in 1885 the Topographical Survey Commission (replaced in this function in 1901 by the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners) sent out field teams to establish and describe triangulation stations and to set monuments designating boundary lines.  These position tables are based on the notebooks of the survey teams, with a few earlier observations included as well.  Calculations were verified, adjusted, and prepared by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, thereunder by locality
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Scope and Content: Since 1978, and with direct legislative authorization since 1983, the Coastal Zone Management Office within the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs has administered the interagency Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Program, which was established under the auspices of the federal Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, PL 92-583.  The office reviews all activities directly affecting the coastal zone that require federal permits, to ensure that these are in compliance with approved state environmental management mandates such as provided in the Coastal Wetlands Restriction Act (St 1965, c 768).  It also reviews coastal-zone related projects requiring state or local permits and works with other state agencies to improve regulatory mechanisms to protect coastal resources and to set coastal management policies and priorities.  Series is created to review and approve development projects involving use of coastal resources, in accordance with the provisions of MGLA c 91 (Waterways), and to certify compliance with all state environmental policies.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by municipality, thereunder by project code/year
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Agriculture, established by Massachusetts in 1852, was replaced successively by the State Dept. of Agriculture in 1918 and the Dept. of Agriculture in 1919. That body was renamed the Dept. of Food and Agriculture in 1975.
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Scope and Content: 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 Swift River Reservoir, renamed Quabbin Reservoir, Oct. 1932.  Preparation for construction of the reservoir included disinterment, transfer, and reburial from cemeteries in part of the area to be flooded (Swift River Valley, towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, Prescott, also New Salem, Petersham) to the Quabbin Park Cemetery (QPC) or other locations.  Photographs provide evidence of the original gravesite and marker prior to removal.
Arrangement: In three subseries
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Dept. of Conservation and Recreation, Sept. 2005 (2005/36) Copied at Archives from originals transferred from Metropolitan District Commission, 1980 (1980/185), and placed offsite (John E. Allen, Inc., Park Ridge, N.J.) in 1991. Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission, 1980 (1980/185)
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Scope and Content: 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 purchase or take land in the watersheds of the Swift and Ware rivers to develop the Quabbin Reservoir.  This included disinterment, transfer, and reburial from cemeteries in the areas to be flooded to the Quabbin Park Cemetery or other locations, creating these files.
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Scope and Content: 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 purchase or take land in the watersheds of the Swift and Ware rivers to develop the Quabbin Reservoir.  This included disinterment, transfer, and reburial from cemeteries in the areas to be flooded to the Quabbin Park Cemetery and other locations.  This series consists of records documenting the removal of the deceased from their original gravesites.
Arrangement: In four subseries: (1) Grave records (2) General removals (3) Cemetery removal records (4) Removal files; Arranged within each subseries by cemetery name
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Scope and Content: The Commissioners on Public Lands were established in 1861 to oversee Boston Harbor and Back Bay lands.  In 1863 they assumed full responsibility for the maintenance and care of the Mill Dam (now Beacon Street) and the roads and bridges connecting to it.  Receipts were maintained by the commissioners to provide a record of funds received and disbursed in the course of carrying out these responsibilities.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year
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