Today at 11:00 a.m., there will be a ceremony to mark the installation of two granite tablets that are the last remaining artifacts of the Beacon Hill Reservoir, which served the Beacon Hill area from the 1840s to the 1880s.

On hand for the event will be:

• Lauren Kaufmann, Interim Director of the Waterworks Museum
• Henry Vitale, Executive Director of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission
• Fred Laskey, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority

The tablets had been saved by the Boston Water and Sewer Commission and stored at the old Calf Pasture Yard until its closure. Then MWRA crews brought them up to the Gillis Pump Station at Spot Pond for safe keeping. They have now been installed at the Waterworks Museum as a permanent display.

October 25th also marks another important anniversary for the region’s water system. On this date in 1848, residents from all around New England gathered together on Boston Common to celebrate the completion of the Cochituate Aqueduct, which brought much-needed fresh water 15 miles from Lake Cochituate in Natick into the City. According to accounts, nearly 300,000 people were in attendance as the fountain at the Frog Pond was turned on and water shot 80 feet into the air.

The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum is located near the Chestnut Hill Reservoir at 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02467.