Much of Boston’s coastline is man-made land. The original shoreline, from 1630, is visible in dark green on this map. Land made between 1630 and 1995 is light green.

About one-sixth of Boston sits on landfill. That’s an astonishing amount, and that history of landmaking is part of what makes Boston so vulnerable to sea level rise today. People built new land ...

Alas, the earliest map used for Boston dates back to 1893, some 263 years after the city was founded. That’s well after the city used landfill in places like the Back Bay ...

The 1878 map looks a bit different from a current map of Boston. For one, some of the landfills that make up the streets we walk on today didn’t exist yet.

Are Boston's streets ... If you look at a 1775 map the British army drew, Boston was just a web of streets veering ... Where we’ve built neighborhoods from lowlands or landfill—the ...

News; Toxics Action Center releases report on toxic sites in Massachusetts; map shows Northampton landfill. Published: ; Mar. 25, 2010, 4:18 p.m.