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Title: Days and ways in old Boston
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Rossiter, William Sidney, 1861-1929
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Publisher: Boston : R. H. Stearns and company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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and Baltimore, as wellas other business centers, depended largely uponBoston for the products of far-off countries. Withmany of the leading ports in Europe, Asia, Africa,South America, the West India Islands and theWest Coast, Boston fairly had the monopoly oftrade. The decade, from 1844 to 1854, wit-nessed the culmination of old Bostons prosperityas the leader in foreign trade. The long stretch of improved water front, withits spacious wharves and docks, was the naturaloutcome of the commercial enterprise of theBoston of this period. In these the pride of thecity was fully justified as well as in the fine ware-houses which flanked them. No port from thecapes of Florida to Casco Bay could boast of suchwharves and docks. Before the filling of SouthCove, the wharf and dock property representedfully one-fifth of the areas of old Boston. Fromwhat is now Dover Street bridge on the south, toCharlestown bridge on the north, was an unbrokenwater front available for wharf and dock purposes.46
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Days and Ways in Old Boston In this paper, however, I shall consider only suchwharves as were in use for commercial purposes. Upon the south, the first wharf, as I recall it,was Wales Wharf, leading off from Sea Street, withits quaint and venerable looking block of stonewarehouses. This was the property of T. B.Wales & Co., then, and for years, one of the lead-ing firms in Boston, having foreign connections,as well as large ship owners. This wharf wasexclusively used by them. Next was Russia Wharf, famous sixty yearsago and owned by the Inches. This wharf waslargely utilized for foreign trade. Liverpooland Fort Hill Wharves were next. The latterfor years was the terminal point for vessels fromthe British Provinces. Next north was ArchWharf. This was largely devoted to the WestIndia trade and trade with the Provinces. It hadsome notable occupants in its day, such as Chas.Cole, Thos. Tremlett, Sheafe and Melledge. Fosters Wharf, or Wharves, came next; therewere two of them, north an

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