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Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)

Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 66

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Tremont Street. The destructive element soon swept away this edifice. Ittook fire about midnight, and was consumed with all its con-tents ; not an article was saved. The event was signalized bya painful disaster. A large crowd of spectators had collectedin the burying-ground adjoining, when the… … WILLIAM WAKREN. 42 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. occasion. The undismayed proprietors had a new two-storybuilding erected by June, 1807, which continued until 1825,when the collection was sold to the New England Museum. The New England Museum — formed from the New YorkMuseum, which was opened in 1812, in…

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