Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 144
n, or bounding upon, Butlers Eow.These were all merchants of high standing, which marks thelocality as one of importance to the mercantile class. Seventy years ago the space between Battery march and StateStreets was occupied by a ship-yard and wharves. Where theold Custom House stands, on Custom… … I—« oo GO PJ02 FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIER. 113 Hill Monument, stand on a foundation recovered from tlie sea.Begun in 1837, it took three years to make a secure foundation.The building is cruciform, of the Grecian Doric order, and hasthe peculiarity that the roof is covered with granite…
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