GC1A3PH Boston Harbor Walk Redux (Traditional Cache) in Massachusetts, United States created by porygon

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Hidden : 3/11/2008

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Near a quiet place along the Boston Harbor Walk.

This cache is along the Boston Harborwalk (visit link) and replaces the old multi-stage cache that used to be in this area. This is now the seventh placement of this cache! Replace exactly as found.

Be sure to visit the little park and take a peak at the marina. It is a very peaceful spot in the busy atmosphere of the city!

Be alert for muggles as there is a lot of activity in the condominium complex and the marina.

Parking can be a challenge, but the Lewis Wharf parking lot is only $4 for the first half hour. If you can do the cache in 8 minutes, there is no charge! You may also be lucky enough to find a metered space.

What follows is background historical material that is not required to find the cache.

A plaque mounted on the main building reads thus: Lewis Wharf, 1835. Boston's legendary clipper ship trade centered around Lewis Wharf. Ships bound for faraway ports sailed from here in the 1840's and '50s: to buy tea in China and sell it in Europe, to Califorina where most of the '49ers' famous gold was made by suppliers of eggs at $10 per dozen and barrels of flour for $44 apiece, to Russia where William Ropes traded cotton and mineral oil (called "Ropski kerosin" in St. Petersburg) for hemp and iron. Today, Lewis Wharf provides residential, commercial and recreational facilities.

Be sure to take a walk into the lobby where a nice collection of historical images of the wharf are presented.

Here's a little history of this location over different periods. This part of the waterfront has been here all along, not being part of the landfill activities on many parts of the waterfront.

1700

... then, at Lewis Wharf, pause a moment to drop into history a bit. For here, on what is now its north side, was Hancock's Wharf of Province days, and earlier Clark's, the most important wharf on the water front till after the building of Long Wharf in 1710. And here was where the Great Cove started on the north side, carrying high-water mark originally up our State Street to the line of Merchants Row and Kilby Street, as we remarked on our initial ramble.
[From www.kellscraft.com/RamblesBoston/ramblesboston06.html]

1800-1900

The Lewis Family Collection. Ca. 1800-1900;1902-1985,n.d. Consists of papers arising from the activities of members of the Lewis family of the Boston area, primarly those engaged as China and West India commission merchants. Included are French spoliation claims presented by Thos. Lewis & Son, the latter, Thomas Lewis II, or Junior, being the founder of the Lewis Wharf in Boston and an ancestor of the South Yarmouth donor of the collection; business records of family members; business and family correspondence;diaries and ledgers; and genealogies.
[From www.capecod.mass.edu/library/nickerson/mss.htm]

Mid 1800's

Cook, Greenleaf & Metcalf built the front of the old Tremont House in Boston in 1827-28. Their apprentice, Charles Cushing, formed a partnership with Nathaniel Adams, and they did considerable work on the Bunker Hill monument. Among the buildings which they erected were the Lewis Wharf stores, Constitution Wharf stores, twenty stores on Commercial Street, fourteen on Fulton street, fourteen on Long Wharf, Dr Beecher's Church and Beebe's dry goods store, all or most of them being of granite.
[From ci.quincy.ma.us/tcpl/legacy/history/hisch1.htm]

1852

Enoch Train at first had his counting-house at 37 Lewis Wharf, and later, about 1852, he bought Constitution Wharf for the use of his ships, moving his private office to State Street.
[From www.kellscraft.com/captainsboston/captainsboston06.html]

1960-1970

The roots of CYC are actually much older. In the sixties and seventies there was a social life and some organized yacht racing at the Lewis Wharf marina known as the Bosport Marina. Bob Davidoff and Jack Roberts were the founders of a marina that catered to pleasure craft in downtown Boston at a time when the waterfront was officially marked on the charts as a "condemned area in magenta." The harbor was so dirty that songs were written about it! True Visionaries! The Club was then known as the Bosport Yacht Club. Meetings and parties were held aboard the work boats and barges used by Bosport Docking Company in their commercial endeavors. In the mid eighties, Bosport Marina moved to new quarters at its present site attached to the Housaic Wharf
[From www.cycboston.org/ClubHistory.htm]

1970

Beginning in the 1960's Boston's oldest wharves including Long Wharf, Central Wharf, Lewis Wharf, and a number of others in the North End experienced adaptive re-use and/or reconstruction to achieve one of America's earliest transformations of obsolete maritime infrastructure and historic wharf architecture into modern waterfront residential neighborhoods.
[From www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/krieger/articles/onthewaterfront.pdf]

1979

Elizabeth Bishop [1911-1979] An important American poet, Bishop was educated in Massachusetts, but spent many of her productive years in Brazil. She was a Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry in 1955, for Poems North and South: A Cold Spring. Her poetry has been called "mysterious" and "imaginative." She translated women's work from the Portuguese language, and also wrote short stories. A very private person, she spent the last years of her life in an apartment in Lewis Wharf, overlooking Boston harbor.
[From cox-marylee.tripod.com/northend.htm]

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