Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority is responsible for the maintenance and operation of the Massachusetts Turnpike, Boston extension, and Callahan Tunnel to East Boston, all of which it constructed, and of the Sumner Tunnel from East Boston.  Planning for the demolition of a related road system, the Boston central artery, known officially as the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway, and its replacement with an underground central artery, began in 1982.  The Central Artery/Tunnel Project, known informally as the Big Dig, was federally funded in 1987; construction, managed by the authority, was initiated by groundbreaking in 1991, and during 2003 completed to the point that the entire new route, including an additional East Boston tunnel and a new bridge over the Charles River, was opened to vehicular traffic.
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Scope and Content: The Topographical Survey Commission was created in 1884 (Resolves 1884, c 72) and during its existence had a mandate to carry out two projects: preparation of a contour topographical map of the state in conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey (1884-1887), and production of a town boundary survey starting in 1885.  Additional legislation was initiated to authorize the commission to resolve problems with the state boundaries with Rhode Island (Resolves 1897, c 88), New York (Resolves 1897, c 25), and Connecticut (Resolves 1898, c 39). The Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners took over the work of the commission in 1901, and its successor, the Division of Waterways, took possession of these topographic maps. –Details of the state field survey work on the topographical map project was coordinated between the members of the Massachusetts Topographical Survey Commission, Francis A. Walker, Henry L. Whiting and Nathaniel S. Shaler; and director J.W. Powell of the U.S. Geological Survey. Work began in September 1884. By 1885, four survey field parties were at work under the direction of the U.S. Geological Survey and survey work was completed in 1887.
Notes: Maps later assigned serial number W520-572 as part of: Massachusetts. Division of Waterways. Maps and plans ((M-Ar)1165X)
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts War Memorial Commission, established in 1930 as the Massachusetts War Memorial Investigating Commission and revived in 1931, was mandated to conduct a competition among Massachusetts architects to procure a design for a memorial to Massachusetts men and women serving in all wars.  Series consists of designs generated by the competition.
Notes: Duplicate numbering with many gaps indicates ca. 100 drawing sets originally submitted
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Scope and Content: The Executive Office of Environmental Affairs administers and creates policy for the departments, commissions, and authorities concerned with the natural resources of Massachusetts.  Series documents transition from the Water Division and Sewerage Division of the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), both agencies within the office.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year(s), thereunder by subject
Notes: Series was held directly by the executive office’s secretary until some indeterminate time after establishment of the authority, when it was transferred to the office’s legal counsel.
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Scope and Content: The Executive Office of Environmental Affairs administers and creates policy for the departments, commissions, and authorities concerned with the natural resources of Massachusetts.  The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) was established within the office to provide water supply services and sewerage collection, treatment, and services to areas of the Commonwealth served by MDC (St 1984, c 372, effective 1985).  Series records actions of its board of directors and finance committee from early meetings (Mar. 1985) through Dec. 1986.  Files contain agendas, minutes, memorandums, correspondence, reports, notes, and cost analysis documents.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically in reverse order
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Scope and Content: The Board of Conciliation and Arbitration is responsible for settling industrial disputes for the public and private sector pursuant to MGLA c 150.  Interest and grievance mediation case files are created by mediators attempting to resolve collective bargaining agreement or contract disputes, chiefly for municipal unions.  Decisions in these cases are not binding.  Arbitration case files are created by arbitrators interpreting collective bargaining agreements.  The arbitrator has the authority to compel adherence to these decisions.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Interest and grievance mediation case files (2) Grievance arbitration case files; Arranged within each subseries chronologically, thereunder by case number
Notes: Case files for 1974 are missing
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Scope and Content: St  1969, c 800, s 1 promulgated MGLA c 118E to administer in Massachusetts a joint state-federally funded program of medical care and assistance authorized by Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (P.L. 89-97). It was placed under the Commonwealth’s Dept. of Public Welfare (DPW), which was already responsible for various medical assistance programs for specific constituencies.  St 1993, c 161, s 17 placed the program, now commonly known as Medicaid, under a Division of Medical Assistance, Executive Office for Health and Human Services.
Restrictions: Personal medical information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. Public health hospital/clinic client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 111,s 70. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: Cushing Hospital in Framingham, Mass., intended for the care and custody of elderly persons, was purchased by the Commonwealth from the federal government in 1955, opened in 1957 under the Dept. of Mental Health, transferred to the Dept. of Public Health in 1984, and closed in 1991.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36.. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Tewksbury Hospital, Tewksbury, Mass., Mar. 1999. Box 1: Annual reports, 1960-1976; monthly reports, 1962-1965. Box 2: Monthly reports, 1965-1975
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Scope and Content: Cushing Hospital in Framingham, Mass., intended for the care and custody of elderly persons, was purchased by the Commonwealth from the federal government in 1955, opened in 1957 under the Dept. of Mental Health, transferred to the Dept. of Public Health in 1984, and closed in 1991.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. Public health hospital client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 111, c 70. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Tewksbury Hospital, Tewksbury, Mass., Mar. 1999
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Scope and Content: The Executive Office of Consumer Affairs was established in 1969 as of 1971, and renamed Executive Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation in 1983.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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