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Courtesy of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission.

The straightening of the main channel is again evident in this photograph from around 1900. By this time the wetland had gotten wetter, with more standing water, making it less of a wet meadow, more of a marsh. Courtesy of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission.

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