Community Corner
Vintage Belmont: Underwood Pool, Then and Now
A look at sites and locations from Belmont's past.
Vintage Belmont will profile a new site in town with some historical significance, a spot that has endured generation after generation, with a short bit of information as well as photographs of the site then and now.
It has been a part of Belmont for as long as Fenway Park has been a landmark in Boston's Fenway neighborhood.
The was dedicated on June 17, 1912 as a community swimming area by Henry O. Underwood – who made his fortune with Underwood Deviled Ham – who purchased the land from the Boston Elevated Street Railway (which would become years later the MBTA) to become a place where children could have the same fun he had as a child swimming in local swimming holes.
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The area was the first public outdoor swimming pool in the United States and has been popular for the past 99 years.
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