During the years of the booming petroleum shipping industry in Burlington, my place was made by placing barriers in the water and filling the space in between the barriers with fill. This new land was then used to house additional petroleum tanks. Eventually, in 1998, as the waterfront was beginning to be revitalized, clean fill was placed in my place to make a buffer between any residual petroleum and the new dog park that was built across the bike path.
“History.” BurlingtonVT.gov, Community and Economic Development Office, www.burlingtonvt.gov/CEDO/History.