Walden Street Cattle Pass
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The Walden Street Cattle Pass, also referred to as the cow path,[1] is an historic site adjacent to the MBTA Commuter Rail Fitchburg Line right-of-way, under the Walden Street Bridge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The site, a tunnel for moving cattle between the railroad and the nearby stockyards of the 19th century, was built in 1857. The cattle yards were closed in 1868[2] or "about 1871",[3] but the cattle trade continued; "until the 1920s, cows were unloaded here and driven down Massachusetts Avenue, through Harvard Square, and across the river to the Brighton Abattoir".[3]
Restoration (re-pointing) of the tunnel's brickwork was carried out during the 2007–08 replacement of the second-generation bridge dating from 1914.[1][4] The third-generation bridge opened for traffic in December 2008. The Cambridge City Council discussed creation of a vantage point for viewing the tunnel, ca. 2008, but no action was taken.
References
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- ↑ a b Walden Street Bridge, Cambridge Department of Public Works Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: Northwest Cambridge, 1977, Template:ISBN, Cambridge Historical Commission, Cambridge, Mass., p. 42
- ↑ a b "Cambridge Cattle Market", in Cambridge Historical Commission-North Cambridge Stabilization Committee report, 2002
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Gallery
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Another view of the Cattle Pass during restoration
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The rebuilt bridge, looking north
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The rebuilt bridge, looking south
External links
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- Agricultural buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places
- Buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Agricultural buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places
- National Register of Historic Places in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts