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The adjacent neighborhood, an upper-middle class residential subdivision with several waterfront homes, is also colloquially called World's End. HISTORY In the mid to late Nineteenth Century, the peninsula was bought up and turned into an extensive estate by John Brewer, who raised livestock there. in 1889, famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was commissioned by Brewer to design a bosky residential subdivision there. The design was made and the roads and trees set in place, but the homes were never built. The site was mooted in 1945 as a possible location for the nascent United Nations , but New York City was chosen instead. In the mid 1960's, a proposal was made to build a nuclear power plant on World's End, but this did not happen. In 1967, the northern two-thirds of the World's End peninsula was acquired by The Trustees of Reservations and made a public park. In 1996, it was made part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area , which is managed by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership , partnership of national, state, and local representatives, but The Trustees of Reservations continue to manage the site. EXTERNAL LINKS
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