Historic Well Discovered Under Mysterious Sinkhole In Boston's Ronan Park

Boston MA

10 December, 2020

12:35 PM

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BOSTON — A mysterious sinkhole was discovered in Ronan Park by a resident over the weekend, and City of Boston Archeologist Joe Bagley revealed on Thursday that the sinkhole actually leads to a historic well from the 1800s. According to Bagley, this was discovered by lowering an iPhone with LED lights into the hole with a rope. "The way the well is positioned in the ground, it is currently under about 10 feet of fill that is brought to the site to create Ronan Park in 1912," said Bagley. "The top of the well is located 10 feet below that and the well is about 6.5 feet deep. That makes the total opening in the park about 16.5 half feet deep. The well is about 2.5 feet wide." Read more at CBS Boston