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Identifier: oldbostonforyoun00peab (find matches)
Title: Old Boston for young eyes ..
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: (Peabody, Mary J.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Boston -- History. (from old catalog)
Publisher: (Cambridge, Mass.) Priv. print. for the Fair for the Massachusetts society for the prevention of cruelty to children. J. Wilson and son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ed wingsbeing on the top, in commemoration of the battleof Bunker Hill. It was lixty feet high, and youreached it by afcending the flight of fteps fromDerne Street, juft as you fee in my little pi6lure.And here is Mr. Thurfl;ons houfe, too, on thetop of the hill. In 1811, this monument wastaken down, and the hill levelled. The ftonepanels on the fides are ftill to be feen in the StateHoufe. On one fide you read this infcription: — AMERICANS ! WHILE FROM THIS EMINENCE SCENES OF LUXURIANT FERTILITY, OF FLOURISHING COMMERCE, AND THE ABODES OF SOCIAL HAPPINESS MEET YOUR VIEW, FORGET NOT THOSE WHO BY THEIR EXERTIONS HAVE SECURED TO YOU THESE BLESSINGS. The State Houfe was built in 1798, from plansof Mr. Charles Bulfinch. On the oppofite cornerfrom the State Houfe, on Park Street, flood theWorkhoufe, then a Poor-houfe and Bridewell,down to the Granary, which flood where ParkStreet Church now is. From Park Street to BE-ACO// HlLUf^rom -Temple bC Dtrn^ JtJ. Trom a. dravxing/laidc in i8n. r.
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Somerfet Street, on the upper fide, was a rowof large, fquare, detached houfes, with high ftepsand gardens, far back from the llreet. Mr. D.D. Rogerss manfion was on the corner, and foon till you came to the largeft and finefl otall, Mr. Gardiner Greenes, with terraces, a loftyfummer-houfe, and fine grounds, coach-houfe,and gardens with high box borders. Thiswas nearly where now is Pemberton Square.An Eaft India tree called the jingo-tree, tranf-planted from this garden, may flill be feen withits fan-fhaped leaves on the Beacon Street fideof the Common. Thefe large, fquare houfeswere much alike; and the one which I fhowyou in the pi6lure, though it flood in Salem,was a good example of the prevailing ftyle.Where the brick church in Somerfet Streetnow ftands was Mr. Caleb Lorings, a littleraifed above the flreet, with a garden at thefide and back. Dire6lly oppofite Kings Chapel,at the corner of Beacon and Tremont Streets,I remember Mr. Eliots, fet back from theflreet, with a flagged wal

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