Illustrated Boston - the metropolis of New England containing also reviews of its principal environs (1889) (14758616736)

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Title: Illustrated Boston : the metropolis of New England containing also reviews of its principal environs
Year: 1889 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : American Publishing and Engraving Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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r transportation facilities. Formerly the Fitch-burg passenger and freight stations were located here, but in 1848 were removed to Boston. The district hasmany objects of interest to visitor*. The Neck, over which the Bunker Ilill warriors went to give battle,and over which they retreated when worsted, connects Charlestown with the mainland of Somerville beyond.It was washed by the tides in the early days, but has been entirely changed by the filling up of the marshes andflats on its borders. The Neck properly begins near the foot of Bunker Hill and ends at the boundary lineover the Maine <fc Eastern Railroad Bridge, between the Charlestown district and Somerville. The NavyYard stands on what was once Moultous Point, at the confluence of the Charles and Mystic Rivers, and wasfounded in 1800. The Yard and buildings cover an extensive area, and as they are daily open to visitors, aninspection is to be commended. Another object of interest is the handsome Soldiers and Sailors Monument
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Public Garden; shoeing the in Winthrop Square, once the military training-field. On Main Street is Edes House, the birthplace of 8. F. B.Morse (the inventor of the electric telegraph), and the oldest house in the district. On the 6ame thoroughfareis the oldest burying-gronnd, where a granite monument surmounts the grave of John Harvard, the fonnder ofHarvard College; and near by is the tomb of Thomas Beccher, ancestor of the Bcecher family of America.The district also contains the old state prison, a free dispensary and hospital, several other charitable institu-tions, public free library, and schools, churches of all denominations, and many fine mansions, and neat cot-tages. The streets are wide and well kept, and illumination is supplied by gas and electric lights, while thewater supply is abundant in quantity and excellent in quality. While Charlestown has not been what is called a manufacturing place, it has numerous industrial estab-lishments of a varied and extensive character,