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The Emerald Necklace
1878
Boston, Massachusetts
Daderot at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Olmsted's seven-mile chain of parks, which began as a scheme to fix a sewage-choked marsh and ended as landscape architecture. The Arboretum in the middle of it is the oldest public arboretum in North America, run by Harvard on a thousand-year lease at a dollar a year.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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