3.9

= = =3.9 Identify historic buildings, monuments, or sites in the area and explain their purpose and significance.=
 * **

MassHome provides a listing for historical sites in Massachusetts.



**H. H. Richardson**
The architect Henry Hobson Richardson designed nine railroad stations in Massachusetts in the late 19th century, several in collaboration with Frederick Law Olmstead, the designer of Central Park in New York City. Efforts are underway in western Massachusetts to save the station in Holyoke.

Click here for more information on H. H. Richardson including his own description of the design and construction of Trinity Church in Boston.

**Daniel Chester French**
The Minuteman Statute in Concord was created by Daniel Chester French. For more see, The Concord and Lexington Minuteman Statutes. Daniel Chester French also created the Lincoln Memorial.

**The Hoosac Tunnel**

 * The Hoosac Tunnel established an east/west railroad line between Boston and Albany in New York State.

It was completed in 1875, and was the second largest tunnel in the world at the time.


 * Arrowhead and Herman Melville**



The writer Herman Melville wrote //Moby-Dick//, //The Confidence Man// and other novels and short stories while living at Arrowhead in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

For more on Melville, see The Life and Works of Herman Melville



**Quabbin Reservoir**
For background, see [|Quabbin Reservoir] from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.

[|Quabbin Reservoir Chronology]

For photos, see [|The Quabbin Reservoir]from The Connecticut River Homepage assembled by Professor Ed Klekowski, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

See also, the [|Friends of the Quabbin]website and [|Amherst College Interterm Project]for historical and scientific information about the creation of reservoir.

Go here for a civics lesson on the Quabbin using the children's book, [|Letting Swift River Go] by Jane Yolen.