| Fresh Pond | |
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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Fresh_Pond_in_fall_IMG_0256.jpg) Fresh Pond in October 2010 | |
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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Fresh_Pond_landscape_plan_by_Olmsted.jpg) General plan for Fresh Pond Park, by the Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm (1897). "[A]lmost none of the plans to relocate the carriage drive [to the route shown] were ever implemented."[1] | |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates | 42°23′N 71°9′W / 42.383°N 71.150°W |
| Type | reservoir |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Surface area | 155 acres (63 ha) |
| Surface elevation | 3 ft 3 in (1 m)[2] |
| Website | Fresh Pond Reservation |
Fresh Pond is a reservoir and park in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to the Pond's use exclusively as a reservoir, its ice had been harvested by Boston's "Ice King", Frederic Tudor, and others, for shipment to North American cities and to tropical areas around the world.[3] Fresh Pond is bordered by Fresh Pond Parkway, Huron Avenue, Grove Street, Blanchard Road, and Concord Avenue.
Fresh Pond Reservation consists of a 155-acre (627,000 m²) kettle hole lake, and 162 acres (656,000 m²) of surrounding land, with a 2.25 mile (3.6 km) perimeter road popular with walkers, runners and cyclists, and a nine-hole golf course.[4] Part of the Watertown–Cambridge Greenway,[5] a rail trail on the alignment of the former Watertown Branch Railroad, runs along the east side of the pond.
- ^ Sinclair, Jill (April 2009). Fresh Pond: The History of a Cambridge Landscape. MIT Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-262-19591-1.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fresh Pond (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- ^ Weightman, Gavin, The Frozen-Water Trade: A True Story, New York, Hyperion, 2003.
- ^ Fresh Pond Golf Course Accessed 2008-10-02
- ^ "Watertown-Cambridge Greenway". City of Cambridge. Retrieved 10 July 2021.