Join the Newmarket Business Improvement District and the Shirley-Eustis House from 4pm-5pm on Thursday, September 21 for a talk by Nancy Seasholes, author of Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. Light refreshments will be served. This talk will take place in the Great Hall of the Shirley Place mansion.

This talk is free. Register Here!

Questions? Contact us at programs@shirleyeustishouse.org

“Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking.

Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it.”