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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he city proper from the districts annexed. These bridges are: Broad-way Bridge, over Fort Point Channel to South Boston; Cambridge Bridge. Western Avenue and North Har-vard Street bridges from Brighton to Cambridge; Canal, or Craigies Bridge, Leverett Street to East Cam-bridge; Charles River Bridge, Charlestown Street to Charlestown; Chelsea bridges (North and South), Charles,town to Chelsea; Chelsea Street Bridge, East Boston to Chelsea; Commercial Point Bridge; Congress StreetBridge, over Fort Point Channel; Dover Street Bridge, to Sonth Boston; Essex Street Bridge, Brighton toCambridge; Federal 8trcet Bridge, to South Boston; Granite Bridge, Dorchester to Milton; Maiden Bridge,Charlestown to Everett; Meridian Street Bridge, East Boston to Chelsea; Mount Washington Avenue Bridge,to South Boston; Neponset Bridge, Dorchester to Quincy; North Beacon Street Bridge, Brighton to Water- THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLAND ^^^^^^^^^^ p dJ CREATED LAND. Iglgh P em,nence am°g the cities of the New
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World, and her prosperity as a great manufacturing and com-mercial centre on the Atlantic seaboard, without a patient .dprolonged struggle with natural obstacles and JS3 ad- 12 hIVT foT From 8Uti8tiM> in • £ ^ ^ 7» thf Wbat «• — the most valuable sec kiu from t>, L bee •t0,eD M * WCTe ^ «Wi»-fag•WI from he boundless and restless ocean. Much of the ongmal penmsula was rocky, and what is now the Common washberaHy stre with hoMen d « «■ first settlers found the peninsula abounding In .fcL .Dd iWded it; broad fringe, of oo,e, and mod and^i• T ^ 5neta of that ^JT »ock connecting it with the ^Lr* T?T T^ n ,W «°*t Offlo* Square. 60 ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. hood of Dcdham Street, thence expanding in greater proportion to the line at the jircsent car-stables, nearlyopposite Metropolitan Place. In Revolutionary times the Nock was kn

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