Identifier: bostonguidebook1910baco (find matches)
Title: Boston, a guide book
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bacon, Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe), 1844-1916 National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting (1910 : Boston, Mass.)
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Ginn and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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k, iiprecious documentsdays. These are preserved inthe office of the registry ofdeeds, and include papers bear-ing the signatures of Bradfordand Standish, orders in Brad-fords handwriting, Standishswill, the plan of the first allot-ment of lands, the plotting ofthe first street (the presentLeyden Street), and the original patent of 1629 granted to Bradfordand his associates. North Street, just above the Court House, to the right from CourtStreet, leads to Plymouth Rock^ under the high granite canopy alsodesigned by Billings. The side gates in the iron railing are open dur-ing the daytime so that visitors may step upon the stone. Close by isPilgrim Wharf. CoWs Hill^ where the first houses of the colonists were set up, andwhere their first burials were made in unmarked graves, rises from theopposite side of Water Street, reduced and rounded now from a raggedelevation to a symmetrical green mound. On the brow is a small parkoverlooking the harbor. Here at the head of Middle Street, which
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Plymouth 170 PLYMOUTH opens from Carver Street, a tablet marks the spot where the skeletonsof two of the forty-four Pilgrims, nearly half the number, who died dur-ing the first hard winter, were found a century and a half after. Theseremains, with parts of five other skeletons, are entombed in the chamberof the canopy over the rock. Ley den Street^ next beyond Middle Street, the first and chief Pilgrimstreet, leads up to Burial Hill. Beyond its start at Carver Street thesite of the first,- or common, house is seen, marked conspicuously, onthe left side. Burial Hill rises abruptly from elm-shaded Town Square, a blockfrom Main Street, practically a continuation of Court Street. OddFellows Building, on the comer of Main Street, marks the site of Gov-ernor Bradfords house. The site of the first meetinghouse is supposedto be covered by the tower of this building. Burial Hill was the placeof the first forts^ which served also as meetinghouses, and these aremarked by oval tablets in the bury

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