Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 176
rancient names. As for the buildings, as we plunge deeper intothis region, we shall find some ofthose old structures that still linkus to the olden time. Weather-stained, tottering, and decrepit asthey are, not many years willelapse before the antiquary willseek in vain for their relics. Imbedded… … 144 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. j)art are unconscious of its existence. The stone bears thedate 1737, and seems to have got its name from the famousLondon Stone, which served as a direction for the shops in itsneighborhood, as did the Boston Stone for its vicinity. It wasbrought from England about 1700,…
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