What to see in America . across Milk Street from this church there used to bea little two-story wooden dwelling in which BenjaminFranklin was born in 1706. He was the fifteenth of his fathersseventeen children. While serving an apprenticeship to anolder brother who was a printer, he secretly left home andmade hisway to Philadelphia, where he won fame and other great Americans born in Boston were Emerson, Massachusetts 35 the philosopher, and Parkman, the historian, and EdgarAllan Poe, one of the most original of our poets. AlexanderGraham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was
What to see in America . across Milk Street from this church there used to bea little two-story wooden dwelling in which BenjaminFranklin was born in 1706. He was the fifteenth of his fathersseventeen children. While serving an apprenticeship to anolder brother who was a printer, he secretly left home andmade hisway to Philadelphia, where he won fame and other great Americans born in Boston were Emerson, Massachusetts 35 the philosopher, and Parkman, the historian, and EdgarAllan Poe, one of the most original of our poets. AlexanderGraham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was a professorin Boston University when the first telephone line was usedin April, 1877. This linewas three miles long andconnected Boston andSomerville. One of the quaintestof the city buildings isthe Old State House. Itis at the head of whatwas, in colonial days,King Street, where werelocated the stocks, pil-lory, and whipping-post. Within a stones throw of it oc-curred the Boston Massacre in March, 1770, when a squad of. The Harvard Gates
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