South Boston Waterfront
Reclaimed harbor mudflats turned glass-tower district, once a rail yard and fishing wharf, now among the priciest real estate in the city.
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This guide to the South Boston Waterfront in Boston opens in 2018, when a nor'easter pushed the harbor over the walkway along Fort Point Channel and left the Children's Museum, with its giant milk bottle, cut off by water. From there it goes back to the tidal marshes and the Boston Wharf Company in 1836, to the sugar, molasses and wool warehouses of Fort Point, and to the decades after the war when the wharves were left to rot. Best heard standing along the channel walkway.
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