Pleasure Bay
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South Boston’s Pleasure Bay park encloses a pond-like cove of Boston harbor with a causeway boardwalk, where locals turn out for their daily constitutionals. Castle Island, now attached to the mainland, has guarded the mouth of Boston harbor since the first fortress, Fort Independence, was erected in 1779. A grisly murder here in 1817 inspired Edgar Allen Poe to write his short story The Cask of Amontillado . Anglers gather on the adjacent Steel Pier and drop bait into the midst of striped bass and bluefish runs.
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