Talk:Furnace Brook Parkway

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Did you know... that Furnace Brook Parkway, a historic road in Quincy, Massachusetts, is named for a stream at the site of the first iron blast furnace in the United States, built in 1644?

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The "John Winthrop Jr. Iron Furnace" mill in the 1640s?

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It looks like the name may have come from the "John Winthrop Jr. Iron Furnace" mill?

Quincy Historical and Architectural Survey

Section: V. FIRST SETTLEMENT PERIOD (1620 - 1675) Subsection: C. Settlement Patterns (quote)Two steam-operated mills were developed in the 1640s: the John Winthrop Jr. Iron Furnace (see above) and the Town Grist Mill (see above). It was at the John Winthrop Jr. Iron Furnace that the first commercial iron in American was produced and it was from here that skilled iron workers went on to find ironworks in Saugus, Taunton and other locations. Sometimes called the birthplace of the iron and steel industry in America, the location on the Furnace Brook in West Quincy was chosen for its proximity to water power, bog iron and wood. The presently partially excavated iron works was built and operated by the Company of the Undertakers of the Iron Works in America of which John Winthrop Jr. (1606-1676) was the principal organizer and agent. From the report of the excavations by Roland Robbins in 1956 (Edwards, pp. 256-274), it appears that the furnace was successfully producing both pig iron and hollow ware at least as late as 1654. Both the Saugus Iron Works (1646) and the John Winthrop Jr. Iron Works operated simultaneously except the Winthrop Furnace gradually ceased production while Saugus increased production. The Winthrop furnace closed because of insufficient water power and a disappointing supply of iron ore from the Montclair marshes. The furnace appears to have successfully introduced a metallurgical process and furnace design largely copied in the erection and operation of the furnace at Saugus.(end quote)

QUINCY HOMESTEAD - Has more info as well.

(quote)BOTTOM OF PAGE 22: The final, long, chapter in the history of the house to the present day began in the 1890s and involved the Metropolitan Parks Commission (later Metropolitan District Commission and today the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation), the firm of Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, and finally the Society of Colonial Dames and historical architect Joseph Everett Chandler. Starting in 1893 the Metropolitan Parks Commission (MPC, later MDC and today DCR) was collaborating with the Olmsted firm in the design of a network of greenways and transportation corridors that linked and preserved significant natural resources within and around the city of Boston. Reservations of these significant natural areas were to be established through purchase by the MPC. In 1893 they proposed acquiring Furnace Brook in Quincy as a connector between the Blue Hills Reservation and the reservation then proposed on the shores of Quincy Bay. The area was rapidly being developed; the former Edmund Quincy estate had been subdivided by TOP OF PAGE 23: 1890 into hundreds of house lots.25 In 1900 land was taken for almost the entire length of Furnace Brook Parkway (2.75 miles). Among the objectives of the landscape architects and the MPC was the inclusion of significant historical and cultural resources adjacent to the corridors. Although the acquisition of the Quincy Homestead was discussed, it was not pursued due to cost.(end quote) Lastly this page has some history on the road. Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners By Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission, Charles Francis Adams Around 1916 CaribDigita (talk) 22:51, 3 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

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