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    The Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston is a system of reservations, parks, parkways and roads under the control of the Massachusetts Department...
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    a historic park and parkway on the western end of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. The parkway...
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    It now forms part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, and on January 18, 2006, was added to the National Register of Historic Places as...
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    of these parkways south of the Fells, which were among the first connecting parkways designed to be part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston...
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    Middlesex Fells Reservation (category State parks of Massachusetts)
    of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. The area around Middlesex Fells is known to have been explored by John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts...
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    Reservation Parkways-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston) were added to the National Register of Historic Places. The parkways consist of Forest Street...
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    Fenway (parkway) (category Streets in Boston)
    is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. Like others in the park system, it is maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation...
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    Parkway is a parkway in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation...
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    formation of The Trustees of Reservations, the world's first land trust, playing a central role in shaping the Boston Metropolitan Park System, designing...
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    Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS (Arlington, Medford, Somerville, and Winchester) Revere Beach Parkway-Metropolitan Park System of Greater...
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  • Metropolitan Park District may refer to: Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston Metro Parks Tacoma Metro Parks (Columbus, Ohio) Metroparks of the...
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    spaces in the Greater Boston area. Both the parkway and reservation were designed in the mid-1890s by Charles Eliot for the Metropolitan Parks Commission...
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    Nahant Beach Reservation (category State parks of Massachusetts)
    reservation's northern end. The reservation is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. In the early 1900s, privately owned shoreline property...
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    predecessor of the Metropolitan District Commission. Work began in 1897, with the construction of a bridge across the railroad tracks of the Boston, Revere...
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    standards the MDC applied in the construction of many other parkways in the Greater Boston area. The parkway portion of the road (between Shea Circle and Gallivan...
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    Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the...
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    of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, travels 2.6 miles (4.2 km) along the northern shore of Dorchester Bay, offering panoramic views of...
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    Lynn Shore Reservation (category State parks of Massachusetts)
    southern end. The reservation is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, and is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, which...
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    historic parkway in southern Boston and Milton, Massachusetts, United States. It is a connecting parkway in the Greater Boston area's network, providing...
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    Stony Brook Reservation (category Parks in Boston)
    woodland park in Boston and Dedham, Massachusetts, a unit of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, part of the state park system of Massachusetts...
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    Middlesex Fells Reservation Parkways (category Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts)
    one of the oldest and largest of the parks in the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. The reservation was created in 1894 with a gift of 450 hectares...
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    Hammond Pond Reservation (category State parks of Massachusetts)
    popular for rock climbing. The reservation is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. Its first parcel was acquired from John Lowell in...
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  • of paved bike and rail trails. DCR's Bureau of Urban Parks and Recreation manages the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, the components of which...
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    such regional system in the United States. (see Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston for history). Lands outside of the greater Boston area includes...
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    Fort Revere (category History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
    facilities. It is operated as Fort Revere Park by the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. Telegraph Hill, the site of Fort Revere, was first fortified...
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    Furnace Brook Parkway (category Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts)
    a historic parkway in Quincy, Massachusetts. Part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, it serves as a connector between the Blue Hills Reservation...
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    the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The parkway is distinctive in the roadway system developed by the Metropolitan District Commission beginning...
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    network of historic parkways in and around the Blue Hills Reservation, a Massachusetts state park south of Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of six roadways...
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    historic parkway in Milton and southern Boston, Massachusetts. It runs along the southern boundary of a portion of the Neponset River Reservation and serves...
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    Wilson Mountain Reservation (category State parks of Massachusetts)
    reservation is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. In 2008, an agreement was reached between DCR and The Trustees of Reservations to "work...
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