Referenced from "Boston Ways" High, By, and Folk, Author: George F. Weston, Jr. and Updated by Charlotte Cecil Raymond: In 1833 a group of Engineer and businessmen formed the South Cove Corporation and work of filling in the shallow South Cove which rlayed east of Harrison Avenue along the south neck of Boston began, At about the same time came the building of the first important railroad, one from Boston to Albany, which ran across the newly created land. The two cities were now only fifteen hours apart. A highway paralleling the railroad was built and named Albany Street. The streets branching from it it were named after the towns and cities which the railroad had now made near neighbors. Patrick Lynch, Urban Planner