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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Poles, Italians saluting ourears with a jargon of tongues. GREEN DRAGON TAVERN SS We approach the North End by way of Hanover Street^ which runsfrom Scollay Square to the Chelsea Ferry on the water front. At Union Street^ the cross street next below Washington Streetextension, we come to two historic sites of first importance. One isthe site of the Green Dragon Tavern, the headquarters of the Revo-lution. This stood on Union Street, a few steps off from the left sideof Hanover Street. The spot is marked by a business building (No.80), on the face of which for years was a stone effigy of the tavernsign, — a sheet-copper, green-painted repre- .^^ sentation of a creature of forked tongue andcurled tail, which couched upon an iron craneprojecting over the entrance door. The tavernexisted from 1680 or thereabouts, throughColonial, Provincial, and Republican days, tillthe twenties of the nineteenth century, whenthe lane which bore its name was widened toform the present street. 3;^<^^^
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It was at the Green Dragon that the prerevo-lutionary leaders held their secret councils andformed their plans of campaign. Here the TeaParty originated. It was the rendezvous of thenight patrol of Boston Mechanics, instituted to keepwatch upon the British and Tory movements. Itwas the chief meeting place of the North EndCorcus, one of the three clubs composed of patriotleaders and followers, which added the word caucus to our political nomenclature. It was also the first Free Masons hall,the pioneer St. Andrews Lodge having been organized here in 1752, and in 1769the first Grand Lodge of the Province, with Dr. Joseph Warren as Grand Masterand Paul Revere a subordinate officer. The other site is that of Josiah Franklins dwelling and chandlery shop,at the sign of the Blue Ball, the boyhood home of Benjamin Franklin,where he worked for his father at candle-making and tended theshop. Near by was the salt marsh by the Mill Pond, on the edge ofwhich he fished for minnows. The Blue Ball sto

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