Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 234
lope conducted to the ]North Battery. The beach atthe foot of the headland, opposite Charlestown, was made intoa street with earth taken from the summit of the hill, whichwas where Snow-Hill Street now crosses it. This made LynnStreet, — now Atlantic Avenue extension, — and afforded acontinuous… … ANCIENT MILL. COPPS HILL AND THE VICINITY. 199 loss for names, as appears in the redundancy of their streetnomenclature. The foot of the hill, at the northeasterly side,went in old times by the name of ]S^ew Guinea, on account•of its being exclusively inhabited byblacks. A representation is here…
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