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officers, and soldiers. The
walkway brings you to a pointed
obelisk monument e. This
granite­block shaft is a memorial
to Donald McKay whose ship­
yard, directly across the channel,
launched some of the fastest
clipper ships of the mid­19th
century and helped cement
Boston as an international
trading port. Bas­reliefs of some
of McKay’s most famous vessels
r Cannons at Fort Independence, Castle Island are mounted near the
base. The shipyard
site is now Logan
International Airport.
WILLIAM J. DAY BOULEVARD Most planes coming
E 1ST STREET SHORE ROAD
to Boston make their
E 2ND STREET r final approach and
EAST 3RD ST E 3RD STREET touchdown on the
INDEPENDENCE MARINE e
SQUARE PARK runway directly oppo­
FORT
EAST BROADWAY EAST BROADWAY FARRAGUT ROAD 0 Pleasure INDEPENDENCE site Castle Island.
D ORC H E S T E R S T R E E T 3 4 G STREET H STREET EAST 5TH ST K STREET ST L STREET N STREET EAST 5TH ST P STREET 9 Bay been fortified since 1634.
PARK
Because Castle
EAST 4TH ST
EAST 4TH ST
EMERSON
Island controls the throat
O STREET
I STREET
of Boston harbor, it has
MERCER ST
EAST 6TH ST
EAST 6TH ST
The current structure, Fort
EAST 7TH ST
PATTERSON WAY E 8TH ST OLD HARBOR STREET E 8TH STREET EAST 7TH ST 5 WILLIAM J. DAY BOULEVARD q in 1779 on George Washing­
Independence r, was erected
EAST 8TH ST
COLUMBIA ROAD MARINE ROAD ton’s orders so that no enemy
Andrew w could ever again occupy Boston
OLD COLONY AVE
ANDREW 8 as the British had done. It never
SQUARE 6 7 saw action, though it did serve
JOE MOAKLEY
PARK gas storage tank in Dorchester. as a prisoner of war camp
COLUMBIA ROAD 1 W I LLIAM J. DAY BOULEVARD 2 Dorchester 0 meters 5 00 500 The tank was first painted in Edgar Allen Poe served here
during the Civil War. Author
Bay
rainbow colors by abstract
briefly in the 1820s and is said to
have based one of his macabre
artist Corita Kent in 1971.
tales, A Cask of Amontillado, on a
The causeway concludes
fort legend of a man deliberately
at Castle Island, which has not
0 yards
such a skeleton was uncovered
channel to the mainland was
filled in 1891. Follow the sea­
during a renovation in 1905.)
side walkway which passes by
The No. 11 bus, which runs
KOSCIUSZKO Key Walk route been a real island since the confined in a dungeon. (Just

CIRCLE a number of memorials to fallen along Day Boulevard, will take
JFK / U Mass South Boston firefighters, police you back to downtown Boston.
known as the “Sugar Bowl” 0.
This beach lines Pleasure Bay,
a circular body of water pro­
tected from the harbor by an
extensive breakwater, the
Pleasure Bay Causeway q. The
causeway walk of nearly 1 mile
(1.5 km) is a favorite spot for
local mothers to show off their
infants, as well as a good exer­
cise route for joggers and speed
walkers. Halfway along the
causeway is the Head Island
light pavilion w, with picnic
tables, benches, and sweeping
views of the harbor, looking all
the way down to the landmark r U.S.S. Constitution gliding past Fort Independence
For keys to symbols see back flap
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