Posts Tagged ‘environmental history’
Corcoran Park plans take into account floods and sinkholes from 10,000-year-old Great Marsh
By Jen Craft, 2026 The Cambridge Housing Authority is moving toward a significant milestone. After clearing major zoning hurdles this year, the city is preparing to begin Phase 1 demolition and reconstruction of the 153-unit Corcoran Park affordable housing complex in Strawberry Hill. This isn’t a standard modernization project. The CHA isn’t simply upgrading old…
Read More15,000 Years of Gossip: History of Gold Star Road, Part I
By Haakon L. Chevalier, 2026 Introduction Over forty years ago, I moved to Gold Star Road, a tiny street in North Cambridge off Massachusetts Avenue. For most of that time, I knew almost nothing about its history, and figured it couldn’t be very interesting. How wrong I was! There were so many questions: Who lived…
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