. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. the Old Town Pump. Houses ofOld Planters Conant and Woodbury (1626) andof Endicott, Roger Williams, Hugh Peter, andHigginson nearby. In Ward House, 150 Wash-ington Street, Washington passed a night in same site lived Sheriff Corwin, who, in 1692, atthe age of twenty-six, executed nineteen personscondemned for witchcraft. Pass to the left down Essex Street to PeabodyMuseum, 161 Essex Street. Founded and endowedby George Peabody in 1867; ethnological and na-tural
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. the Old Town Pump. Houses ofOld Planters Conant and Woodbury (1626) andof Endicott, Roger Williams, Hugh Peter, andHigginson nearby. In Ward House, 150 Wash-ington Street, Washington passed a night in same site lived Sheriff Corwin, who, in 1692, atthe age of twenty-six, executed nineteen personscondemned for witchcraft. Pass to the left down Essex Street to PeabodyMuseum, 161 Essex Street. Founded and endowedby George Peabody in 1867; ethnological and na-tural history collections; ship-pictures and models;portraits; includes museum of East India MarineSociety, founded in 1799. An officer of the Acad-emy will give information regarding the collec-tions. The whole afternoon could be spenthere. Nearly opposite the Peabody Museum on Essex Street is the Essex Institute, 132-134 Essex museum has for its object the promotion ofhistory, science and art in Essex County. Hereare a picture gallery and museum of historicalrelics, art objects, furniture, pottery and porcelain,. THE ) \-IMIl N SALEM 58 NEW BOSTON costume, manuscripts, etc., and a library of 450,000volumes, books, pamphlets and Itound newspapers. Restored to its original form of two centuriesago, on the grounds in the rear, is the Jolin WardHouse, with old-time surroundings, flower and herbgarden, well sweep, old cobbler shop, dame andold apothecary shops in the lean-to ell. Continuing on Essex Street turn to the right onUnion Street to Hawthornes Birthplace, 27 UnionStreet. Built before 1685. Hawthorne was bornhere July 4, 1804. Just below Union Street, corner of Derby Street,is Derby-Crowningshield-Ward House (1740),showing gambrel roof. Following Derby Street, to left, one comes tothe Custom House, at 178 Derby Street, built in1819. Here Hawthorne began to write TheScarlet Letter. His surveyors stencil-plate seen here. His desk is at the Essex Institute. GeneralM
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