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Franklin Park: Boston's urban oasis for generations
When Boston was young, after our revolutionary era, the Shawmut Peninsula looked onto a forested hillscape. Nearly everywhere in sight was Roxbury. The hills held a secluded sylvan valley nearby: Franklin Park. Then, as now, Bostonians escaped to nature there.
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