A.C. Cline Correspondence: Metropolitan District Commission
- HF-ID: HFCor-1223
- Category: Correspondence
- Creator: Cline, A.C., Hosley, N.W., Gast, P.R., Shepard, W., Allardice, E.R.B., Winsor, F.E., Shattuck, H.L., Wood, H.A., Davenport, C.M.
- Associated Person: Fisher, R.T., Upham, [?], Kennison, [?], Lowes, J.W., Hultman, E.C., Willson, A.L., Molt, R.N., Broderick, [?]
- Date: 1930-1952
- Location: Quabbin Reservoir
- Media: Paper
- Keywords: hurricane damage
- Abstract:
- Letters from Cline, Shepard and Hosley are unsigned carbon copies of typewritten letters
- Includes letters between N. W. Hosley and E. R. B. Allardice regarding rain gauge used by Upham; copy of "Key to Fertilization Plots of Metropolitan Dist. Com." by P. R. Gast, June, 1936, with penciled annotations; 3 copies of "List of Property owned by the Commonwealth in the town of Petersham January 1, 1937, upon which payment is to be made in Lieu of Taxes under Sections 6 & 7, Chapter 59, General Laws"; Memorandum from Russell Snow, Feb. 5, 1940, "Forestry Work on the Quabbin Reservoir Project"; note from MDC commissioners regarding opening of the Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission's new pressure aqueduct on Oct. 23, 1940; 1952 map of public fishing and boat mooring areas in the Quabbin Reservoir
- Includes correspondence between Ward Shepard and F. E. Winsor regarding new road from Petersham west to the reservoir which passes through south end of Tom Swamp and the taking of approximately 1.3 acres of Harvard Forest land by the Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission for road construction
- Cline correspondence topics include gypsy moth suppression; A. L. Willson's concern about woodlot at upper end of Brown's Pond / Willson's Pond to be cut by Mr. Broderick; request for "small areas of Commission land in the Quabbin area reserved for planting with stock developed in the tree genetics work of the Cabot Foundation"; the Worcester County Land Use and Planning Project; Quabbin watershed reforestation program; Massachusetts Timber Salvage Commission and slash burning in Quabbin area after 1938 hurricane;
- Archives Location: Middle Room, Quabbin Reservoir file
- Access: Restricted
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