Identifier: devonshirestreet00walt (find matches)
Title: Devonshire street; a collection of facts and incidents together with reproductions of illustrations pertaining to an Old Boston street
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Walton, Perry, 1865-1941 Second National Bank (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Streets
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Printed for the Second national bank (under the direction of the Walton advertising & printing co.)
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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in the clover of the fields. And, morningand evening, cattle strayed down to the creek at the corner ofWater and Devonshire Streets, where the post-office now stands,to drink their fill; and at the Great Spring Madam Winthrop andAnn Hutchinson filled their pitchers, Elder Thomas Oliver,Governor Winthrop, and Richard Brackett, the jailer, and othergoodmen and dames congregated to wag their tongues over thelatest bit of gossip, to discuss perchance the sharp sayings of AnnHibbins, the latest Indian happenings, or what startling newssome incoming ship may have brought from the old country. As the town grew and the paths grew into lanes, shops andhouses began to line them. A few years after the opening of theeighteenth century, Crooked Lane had been so officially named bythe town, and later in its history it was known for the superiorquality of its chop-houses. The old lane calls to mind TomHoods description of its London prototype:— fo 3 g z ■J. ^ -. n 1 £? o g - 09 n> o & m
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10 DEVONSHIRE STREET Ive heard about a pleasant land where omelets grow on trees.And roasted pigs run crying out, Come eat us, if you please.My appetite is rather keen, but how shall I get there?Straight down the Crooked Lane and all around the square. It was not long before the path on the south side of the Mar-ket-place had become Pudden, or Pudding, Lane,—a name, somesay, derived from the well-known London street, while others de-clare the name came from the savory desserts which were pre-pared in the kitchen of the Blue Anchor Tavern, the grounds ofwhich ran from Washington Street to Pudding Lane, and theodors from which lingered awhile with those who wended theirway past. The path which led from the house of Ann Hibbins tothe house of John Joyliff was not defined well enough to have aname until the latter part of the seventeenth century. Aboutthis same time the path to William Dinsdales house and gardensouth of Joyliffs had become the lane to Dinsdales, and forover a century wa

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