The Quabbin Reservoir.
"In front of me stretched the water of the Quabbin (Reservoir}. It was for this water that the Swift River Valley {of central Massachusetts} was flooded. It was because of this water that the wilderness, with its eagles and its extensive woodlands and abandoned cellar holes, exists in the Quabbin region.''
-- From Quabbin: The Accidental Wilderness, by Thomas Conuel
