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Route 128 traces its origins to the late 1920s, when the Massachusetts Department of Public Works cobbled together a makeshift network of existing roads through Boston's suburbs. Between 1947 and 1956, during a statewide push to build new highways, Route 128 was reconstructed as a major regional expressway. The new highway immediately fueled explosive growth in many of the region's once bucolic suburbs.
What was once "the road to nowhere" quickly became a major commercial nexus for eastern Massachusetts and a critical link in the region's highway network. The visionary highway project vigorously promoted by William F. Callahan permanently altered the character of the two dozen towns through which it passed. Building Route 128 vividly documents the highway's construction and its impact on towns such as Waltham, Dedham, Lynnfield, and Gloucester. Drawing on previously unpublished images from the Massachusetts Department of Public Works and archives from many of the cities and towns affected, Building Route 128 tells the story of a region forever changed by the highway's construction.
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Susan Wood was coeditor of River Time, about a St. Lawrence County community, and has a long association with the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, where she edits a newsletter and works in the library archives. Christopher Angus has written about Adirondack and environmental issues for numerous publications. A former newspaper columnist, he is currently book review editor for Adirondac magazine and is the author of Reflections from Canoe Country and a forthcoming biography of noted Adirondack guide and conservationist Clarence Petty.
David Kruh, a local playwright and historian, is the author of Always Something Doing: Boston's Infamous Scollay Square.
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- PublisherArcadia Publishing
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0738511633
- ISBN 13 9780738511634
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages127
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