Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #8: ""The following plan indicates Billerica's highest hills, streams, localities and roads before 1900.""
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #4"" ""A view over Billerica Common in the early days. You know how trees planted since then by citizens as memorials, and for their beauty, have improved its appearance.""
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #6: ""On the following Billerica plan black areas represent wet ground; spots indicate frequency of ledges and boulders.""
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #7: ""Six views in celebrated public parks, the beauty of which can be duplicated along Billerica watersides in public reservations that we hope to obtain as gifts for our people from the...
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #15: ""Home ground surveys and plans made by 7th and 8th grade children as a substitute for free hand drawing. Why should not Billerica children undertake this work?""
Forest Map from Oct. 1912 Billerica, Massachusetts. Accompanying text ""The North Billerica improvement plan of 1908, which will be followed by slides showing the growth of named shrub collection made at that time on the oval, and of the lilac...
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #5: ""On the following plan red indicates the woodlands of 1853; red and grey woodlands of today.""
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #3: ""The Harriet B. Rogers' Beech in summer and winter. This tree has been deeded to our Improvement Association to stand a a permanent memorial.""
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #9: ""Each dotted line represents a shore line that water would make if raised 20 feet at a time from the Concord River's hundred foot level to 320 feet on Gilson Hill top. Lines near together...
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #10: ""The 60 miles of roads in the towns 16000 acres before 1900 cost $92. per mile per year to maintain. Now 50 miles of additional new roads are required for 19 new subdivisions. They...
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #11: ""The inexpensive woodland roads and trails that the people most enjoy. We want a system of public waterside and wildwood reservations with such roads and trails.""
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #12: ""Salem Road before and after the lumberman had illegally cut the roadside trees that belonged to our townspeople. It is the tree warden's duty to protect such roadside growth.""
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #13: ""The three following slides show how a plain, bare house can be draped by vines and surrounded by flowering plants at an original cost that need not exceed $100.""
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #14: ""The two following slides show how unsightly buildings can be screened in ten years by a planting of trees at an original cost of $50.""
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #17: ""Why should not our children be educated through school gardening to successful farming: This is being done by European countries and many of our states.""
