Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 470
by which it was known to Winthrop and to Washington,All Boston proper was once styled The Neck, in distinctionfrom Noddles Island, Brookline, and other territory includedwithin the jurisdiction. The ]3eninsula outgrowing her de-pendencies, the name attached itself to the narrow isthmusconnecting… … o 03 Ui o o O m o SI?!! ma 02 ei H THE NECK AND THE EOETIFICATIONS. 419 of Dedham Street, thence expanding in greater proportion tothe line at the present car stables nearly opposite ArnoldStreet. The Neck, according to its designation in Revolution-ary times, was that part lying south of Dover…
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