The land that Camp Cameron sat on was owned by the Union Horse RR for the first half of its life. In 1862 the company sold the land to Gardner Green Hubbard, one of its directors. after the war a piece of the property, along what is now Mass. Ave, was sold back to the Railroad. They built their car barns on the property. Later when technology moved the RR from horse power to electricity they sold the portion of the land the horse barns sat on. The rest of the property remained a trolley depot, and still does. It went from Union RR, to West End RR, to Boston Elevated RR to MTA and now it is the MBTA. Members of my parents generation called the land the "Car Barns" to the day they died, even though the physical barns had disappeared decades before.
DAN SULLIVAN
