1874 Map of Where the Boston Bottle Works Once Stood.

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted December 31, 2019

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One of the Boston Bottle Works buildings stood along an approximately 300-foot-long wharf and docking area up on the far right of this image. The company operations were on Mystic Avenue (aka the Medford Turnpike in those days) with much more real estate across the street for about 2/5s of a mile.

The only image known of the company's buildings is within one of their popular ads. It shows the large wooden, warehouse-like structure with chimneys, a tall roof, docks, etc., standing by the waterfront. Everything to the left of it (as you see here) was the Mystic River shoreline which came right up to the edge of Mystic Avenue.

When Interstate 93 was built in the 1960s, a lengthy, wide swath of fill was used (maybe about 1000 feet in width) making space for the highway between Mystic Avenue and present shoreline (at the very top of this image). The highway passes right over the former BBW shoreline property. As you can also see, Boston Bottle Works also had buildings across the street. I do not know what purpose these had. A long stretch of apartment buildings now occupies the entire area.

Click "Previous" for a Google photo taken from the highway looking at where the site was.

Click "Next" for a current-day map of this vicinity.

Please see [id=582506118] for an illustrated image from one of the company's advertisements as described above that shows the company's waterfront property. That area is at the upper right corner of the above map.

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