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Back Bay Fens

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Parking: yes
Size: 57
Ownership : City of Boston
Play Equipment: Yes
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The Back Bay Fens are part of the string of parks called "the Emerald Necklace". Developed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1880s, who created this area from a rather disgusting area where effluence from industries on the Stony Brook and the Muddy River and sewer runoff from the City milled in a fetid swampland.

Now, the Fens offer many amenities to modern Bostonians - including a series of community garden plots (dating back to the "Victory" gardens of WWII) that range from serviceable vegetable producers to fanciful botanical wonderlands. Fenway Victory Gardens
There are ballfields, war memorials and the Kellecher Rose Garden to explore in this park too.

Park activities

  • Sports
  • Gardens

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