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The Old Colony Street Railway Company (Old Colony St. Ry.) was a horse-drawn and electric streetcar railroad operated on the streets of Boston, Massachusetts and communities south of the city. Founded in 1881 as the Brockton Street Railway Company , via lease and merger it became a primary mass transit provider for southeastern Massachusetts ...
Next was Rowes Wharf, at Broad Street and High Street, with a transfer to the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad via a ferry from Rowes Wharf to East Boston. Continuing along Atlantic Avenue, the next station, at State Street, was named State Street, and had, beginning in 1904, a transfer to the East Boston tunnel (now the Blue Line).
To-scale map of the Boston subway system from 2022. All four subway lines cross downtown, forming a quadrilateral configuration, and the Orange and Green Lines (which run approximately parallel in that district) also connect directly at two stations just north of downtown. The Red Line and Blue Line are the only pair of subway lines which do ...
The main line, built by the Boston and Worcester Street Railway, was an interurban streetcar line partly on the old Boston and Worcester Turnpike (now Route 9) and partly on private right-of-way. Long after the line was converted to buses, Boston and Worcester Lines took over operations, and sold the franchises to various other bus companies.
Boston Human Rights Commission, and city Office of Business and Cultural Development established. [30] 1985 Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative [174] and Universal Buddhist Congregation [163] established. Lecco's Lemma hip-hop radio program begins broadcasting on WMBR. [175] Sister city relationship established with Melbourne, Australia.
[75] "Charles named his concern the Securities Exchange Company" [76] on 27 School Street in Boston, Massachusetts. [77] On August 23, 1927, Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were sent to the electric chair after a seven-year trial in Boston. Their execution sparked riots in London, Paris and Germany, and helped to ...
Detail of map of Boston in 1895, showing Tremont Row Tremont Row (1830s-1920s) in Boston , Massachusetts , was a short street that flourished in the 19th and early-20th centuries. It was located near the intersection of Court , Tremont , and Cambridge streets, in today's Government Center area. [ 1 ]