Entrance to the park.

ID: 1484 ~ Source: Courtesy of MCLA Freel Library.

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Western Gateway Plaza showing a pole structure at the plaza entrance which is not present in other photos of the entrance.

This file appears in: Western Gateway Heritage State Park

Western Gateway Heritage State Park

By Kadan Burdick and Olivia Patenaude

In the late 1970s a state program was launched to address public concerns in old industrial cities across Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Heritage State Park Program, launched in 1978 by Governor…