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Title: Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: Boston, The G. W. Armstrong dining room & news co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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le province, may be seen North End Park, andbeyond, across the river, in Charlestown. Bunker Hill Monu-ment. Having completed our sight-seeing on the hill, let us return toHull Street, and going west to Snow Hill Street, follow the lattertill we turn to the right on Prince Street, and. slill holding ourway westward, reach Causeway Street. A short distance to thesouth we reach the North Union Station, and here we may takeeither an elevated or a surface car for the Park Street SubwayStation. W^e are back now in the heart of the shopping district,and we still have the neighborhood of Beacon Hill to explore.This may be left until another day, when we shall resume ourpilgrimage at the corner of Park and Tremont streets by theold Park Street Church. We must pause on Tremont Street to look in at the old Gran-ary Burying-Ground, named from the gr;inary which stood onthe site of the church. In this plot ;ire buried nine governor-of the Colony and Slate; three of the signers of the Decl;iration
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82 GUIDE TO BOSTON. of Independence; Paul Revere, the patriot; Peter Faneuil, thedonor of the hall that bears his name; Judge Samuel Sewall, andmany others. Upon the front of one of the tombs, on the sidenexft to Park Street Church, was once a marble slab with theinscription, No. i6, Tomb of Hancock; but nothing now marksthe resting-place of the first signer of the Declaration of Inde-pendence. In another part of the yard is the grave of SamuelAdams. Near the Tremont Building corner are the graves of thevictims of the Boston )\Iassacre of 1770. The most conspicu-ous monument in the ground is one erected in 1827 to markthe graves of the parents of Benjamin Franklin. It contains anepitaph, composed by their illustrious son, in filial regard totheir memory. Across from here a little to the eastward standsthe new Tremont Temple, Boston headquarters of the Baptistdenomination. Returning to Park Street we climb the hill, lured on by thegolden dome which Holmes called the Hub of the universe

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