Highland Park

Highland Park, also known as Fort Hill Park and formerly Roxbury High Fort, stands on the site of a Revolutionary War fort that played an instrumental part in forcing the March 17, 1775 evacuation of the British forces occupying Boston. The fort was destroyed in 1869 for construction of the water standpipe now found there. In 1895, the renowned landscape architect Fredrick Law Olmstead developed a design plan for the park's construction that included restoration of the standpipe and the fort's earthworks and the installation of pudding stone walls, benches, and plantings. In 1912, Mr. Olmstead's former design firm designed plantings for the grounds added to the enlarged park. The park is maintained by the Boston Parks Department with funding support from the George Francis Parkman Fund of the City of Boston.

Boston, Massachusetts · United States