Mystic River
The Tobin Bridge over the Mystic River in Boston
Location of Mystic River
Bird view of 1790 from Bunker Hill to the Malden Bridge over the Mystic River, Medford in the background.
Mystic River Bascule Bridge No. 7, which spans for the Boston & Maine Railroad in Somerville MA on the Mystic River. Photo of 1968.
View from Beacon Hill ( Beacon Hill ). The colored with water color landscape image shows the view from a British attachment to the Beacon Hill with a gun and a soldier in the foreground. A legend identifies the key points: (1 ) Mystic River, (2) Charles Town Point, where the British troops landed on June 17, (3) rebel positions, (4) Noodles Island ( Noodles Iceland ), (5 ) Hoginsel ( Hog Iceland ), (6 ) the Boston Harbor, (7) The Dykes, ( 8) Boston north (9 ) Kops hill ( Kops Hill ) and gun battery, attacked the rebel positions on June 17, (10 ) Beacon Hill ( Beacon Hill ) and (11) HMS Somerset. Published 1775-1780.
Mystic River (from an Indian word meaning " Big River " ) is the name of just over 11 km long river in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, which flows north parallel to the Charles River.
It has a catchment area of over 120 square kilometers and ends in the Boston Harbor, the natural harbor of Boston. He begins as a discharge of the Lower Mystic Lake, the lower of the two Mystic Lakes. Also, the inflow of the Mystic Lakes, the River But Jonah is sometimes referred to as " Mystic River".
The river is named for the novel Mystic River ( German track of the Wolves ) by Dennis Lehane, who served as a template for the film Mystic River by Clint Eastwood.
1775 put British troops from Boston coming to Charlestown peninsula over the Mystic River to begin the battle of Bunker Hill.
The river has a long history of industrial use and an ongoing water quality problem. Extensive salt marshes lined the banks of the river, until 1901, the first dam was built, which converted the salt marshes in freshwater marshes and land development enabled. The current dam was built in 1966 and named after Amelia Earhart. The dam has three locks to allow the passage of ships and to conduct pumps during the flood of fresh water into the harbor. The dam operators let the floodgates are open temporarily to make fishing the way; to mention specifically is the local member of the herring Alosa pseudoharengus small. There is a fish ladder, but who has never worked. The dam is not publicly available.