Identifier: illustratedbosto00unse (find matches)
Title: Illustrated Boston : the metropolis of New England containing also reviews of its principal environs
Year: 1889 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : American Publishing and Engraving Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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d this for a long time was known us the Old North Burying-ground In the siege of Bostonthe British established a redoubt on this hill, and from the battery here they filed upon the American earth-works on Breeds Hill in the battle of Bunker Hill. From here, too, the English poured hot shot into Charles-town, and destroyed the village. It is said that the British, while here, made targets of the gravestones of the burying-ground. Whcu the English evacuated Boston,on March 1, 1770, three of the heaviest guns of the batteryhere were found to be spiked and clogged so as to preventtheir immediate use. In late years the whole of the North End has under-gone great transformations. New churches have arisen,streets have been straightened and widened, and large ware-houses, and factories, and work-shops have taken the placeof what were once habitations of the humblest and leastfavored of the population. Haymarket Square, once a pondwith a bridge over it, is now one of the busiest centres in the
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The New Old South Church. city, with streets branching off from it to all points of the compass. The Boston & Maine Railroad Station sitefronting on the Square, and all the ground in the rear of it is made land, and now of enormous value. When theprojected new Union Railroad Depot shall have been erected on Causeway Street and on the waters edge, thewhola of the space now occupied by the railroad between Causeway Street and Haymarket Square will bethrown open for improvement and new buildings, and as important a change will bo effected as was achievedin 1873-4 by the opening up of Washington Street from Dock Square to Haymarket Square at a cost of$1,500,000. But let ns for a moment tarn from the North End (which is tho designation of that part ofthe city lying towards Charlestown, between the Boston & Maine Station and Fanenil Hall), to I 64 ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. THE SOUTH END. This appellation now applies to that part of the city lying to the south of Dover Street and extending

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