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Detail of 1743 map of Boston, showing Merchants Row at the waterfront. In the 18th century, "many of Boston's best-connected importers set up shop" on Merchants Row. [3] Andrew Faneuil (uncle of Peter Faneuil) owned a warehouse there around 1732;." [2] and in the 1730s merchant Charles Apthorp had a "prime storefront location." [3] [4]
Dock Square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, is a public square adjacent to Faneuil Hall, bounded by Congress Street, North Street, and the steps of the 60 State Street office tower. [1] Its name derives from its original (17th-century) location at the waterfront.
Spag's was a discount department store on Route 9 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.The store was considered an early pioneer of discount retailing and was notable for its longtime resistance to accepting charge cards (until 1992), [1] offering plastic shopping bags (late 1996), [2] and shopping carts (introduced in 1998). [3]
"In 1711, Oct. 2, a fire commenced in Williams' Court in an oakum pickers tenement, where the woman suffered the fire 'to catch the oakum she was employed in picking of;' all the houses and stores on both sides of Washington St. between School St. and Dock Square were laid in ashes." [12] Life in Boston, a weekly periodical (c. 1851) [13]
Map showing the locations of Dorchester neighborhoods including Savin Hill. Savin Hill is a section of Dorchester, the largest neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. [2] Named after the geographic feature it covers and surrounds, Savin Hill is about one square mile in area, and has a population of about 15,000 people.
Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts 1,259,063 [11] 80 Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue 1983 Simon Property Group 21 Emerald Square: North Attleboro, Massachusetts: Massachusetts 1,022,295 [12] 126 Macy's (2 stores), JCPenney 1989 JLL-Retail 22 CambridgeSide: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts 1,000,000 80 Best Buy, TJ Maxx, H&M 1990
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The area was one of the few places in Boston where African Americans and whites intermingled. [5] Detail of 1814 map of Boston, showing Ann St. and vicinity North Street, looking up from North Square, ca.1894. Ann Street was the main thoroughfare through the neighborhood.