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Title: State Street : a brief account of a Boston way
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Streets
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Printed for the State Street Trust Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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THE ORIGINALS OF THE OUTSUSED IN THIS PAMPHLET ANDMANY OTHER QUAINT AND IN-TERESTING PICTURES MAY BESEEN ON THE WALLS OF THEMAIN OFFICE OF THE STATESTREET TRUST COMPANY AT38 STATE STREET, BOSTON
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STATE STREET THE BEGINNING OF A WAY. THE street is old,—as old as Bostonitself. If one would look for its ori-gin, he must go back to the daysbefore the Puritans of St. Botolphs town setfoot upon the hills that run up from Boston Har-bor. Even then he is forced to fall upon con-jecture, and surmise that it may have been thetrail which the Indians followed from their campson Shawmut Hills to their fisheries in thebay. William Blackstone, the only white in-habitant on Tri-mountain previous to 1630,may have trod the self-same trail on his way alongthe ridge, which was the principal spur fromCentury Hill down to the water. State Street,despite the uncertainty of its origin, has beenfrom the very day of Bostons settlement Bos-tons most important thoroughfare. The street has written itself large and per-manently in the records of an ancient town andon the page of a nations history. When Eng- STATE STREET lish ships brought English goods to Puritanhomes in the days of the first settlers, i

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