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The future Washington St. shown in blue on a pre-Revolutionary British map of Boston. Nine months later the name "Washington Street" was extended again. On May 9, 1825 the roads connecting Boston's town line to present-day Roxbury Street in Dudley Square were consolidated into Washington Street. This includes some of the oldest streets in ...
The name "Combat Zone" was popularized through a series of exposé articles on the area Jean Cole wrote for the Boston Daily Record in the 1960s. [1] The moniker described an area that resembled a war zone both because of its well-known crime and violence, and because many soldiers and sailors on shore leave from the Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard frequented the many strip clubs and brothels ...
Detail of 1888 map of Boston, showing vicinity of Scollay Square. Scollay Square was located "at the junction of Tremont and Court streets, Cornhill and Tremont Row". Initially the city designated it Pemberton Square, but changed the name to "Scollay Square" when Phillips Square changed its own name to "Pemberton Square". The building that gave ...
Map of Shawmut Peninsula from 1775 showing tactical positions from the perspective of the British Army Shawmut Peninsula is the promontory of land on which Boston , Massachusetts was built. The peninsula , originally a mere 789 acres (3.19 km 2 ) in area, [ 1 ] more than doubled in size due to land reclamation efforts that were a feature of the ...
John Bonner's map of Boston published. [2] [14] Population: 10,567. 1723 – Old North Church built, Salem Street. 1729 – Old South Meeting House [1] and Granary ...
Boston Sports Temples, exhibition, Boston Public Library, November 17, 2012 – May 31, 2013; South End Grounds at Project Ballpark; Boston birdseye map, 1879 - South End Grounds isolated; Map dated 1883-1885, showing the ballpark and its original tiny grandstand; Sanborn map showing the ballpark, 1887 - and streets prior to the 1894 fire
This expedition landed in Weymouth, Massachusetts, five miles south of what is now Boston. [6] By 1625 the colony at Weymouth had failed and all of his fellow travelers returned to England. Blaxton remained, moving five miles north to a 1 mi 2 rocky bulge at the end of a swampy isthmus surrounded on all sides by mudflats.
A 1920 plan for Boston's Central Artery, based on the West Side Elevated Highway Traffic on the former Central Artery at mid-day (Demolished in 2003). A 1926 state report on rapid transit expansion recommended the conversion of the Atlantic Avenue Elevated to an elevated highway; however, it closed in 1938 and was demolished in 1942. [4]