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By adamg on Tue, 08/09/2005 - 9:46pm
If you look, you can still spot signs that Hyde Park was once an independent town, 93 years after Boston annexed it. Above is a former town boundary marker at Dale Street and Windham Road (in what most people would now consider Roslindale) that has somehow survived decades of snowplowing and repaving (there's a "B" on the other side).
Not far from there, Poplar Street abruptly turns into West Street for no apparent reason between two intersections - until you learn that the spot also marks the former boundary between the city of Boston and the town of Hyde Park. Over on Truman Highway, an old pedestrian bridge over the Neponset and the train tracks still bears a plaque with the name of the Hyde Park selectmen who presided over its construction. Others?
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Other markers
On Truman Highway, there's a cut-stone bridge over the Neponset River which has town markers built into the parapets, and they don't seem to jibe with the actual city boundaries. If memory serves, the parapet on the outbound side of Truman reads Milton and the other side of the street reads Boston.
To further complicate the visual, the town/city names are also on opposite banks of the river, which is nearly perpendicular to the road. Meaning the Boston marker is on the south bank of the inbound lanes and Milton marker is on the north bank of the outbound lanes.
I'm not sure if the river is actually a town/city boundary there because the Stop and Shop further inbound is very clearly in Hyde Park even though the river flows behind the supermarket. It's one of those little mysteries like your stone marker.