A guide-book of Boston for physicians . ). A little farther alongis Custom House Street, where is the Old Custom House ( to 20), in which Bancroft, the historian, and NathanielHawthorne served as collector and customs officer, building is now a story higher and is occupied as a Custom House is cut in the granite of the facade. Long Wharf (1710) is at the foot of State Street. Here theroyal governors made their formal landings, and the Britishsoldiers came and went. At right angles to State Street is the waterside street,Atlantic Avenue, nearly on the line of t
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . ). A little farther alongis Custom House Street, where is the Old Custom House ( to 20), in which Bancroft, the historian, and NathanielHawthorne served as collector and customs officer, building is now a story higher and is occupied as a Custom House is cut in the granite of the facade. Long Wharf (1710) is at the foot of State Street. Here theroyal governors made their formal landings, and the Britishsoldiers came and went. At right angles to State Street is the waterside street,Atlantic Avenue, nearly on the line of the ancient Barricado,an early harbor defence, erected in 1673 between the northand south points of the Great Cove. Going to the north ashort distance from Long Wharf we come to T Wharf (No. 178),a part of the Barricado, the headquarters of the fishing industry GUIDE TO BOSTON 35 of Boston. There is a museum here of interesting things pertain-ing to the sea, which is well worth seeing. The wharf is so namedbecause of its original N. L. Stebbins, Photo. T WHARF THE SOUTH END THE term South End has had different meanings atdifferent periods in the history of Boston. At onetime the present site of the Old South Church, nowin the heart of the business section, was considered to be inthis district; this church, in fact, was so named because it wassituated in what was then called the South End of Boston. Asbusiness encroached, the northerly limits of the South Endhave been pushed more and more to the south. For our pur-pose the South End is considered to comprise that part of thecity bounded on the north by Eliot and Kneeland streets, onthe east by the South Bay, on the west by Huntington Ave-nue, and on the south by Roxbury. The South End as considered to-day has little of historicalinterest when one compares it with the North and West only part that existed in colonial times was the narrow neckof land that occupied the present site of Washington Street(see map facin
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