Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . PARK STREET CHURCH. Edward D. Griffin, D. D., was the first pastor. Dwight, Beecher,Stone, and other gifted preachers have occupied its were vaults — long since removed — for the Banner, an Englisli architect, the same who made the planfor the fine old mansion-house of Eben Crafts in Eoxbury, de-signed this church. The Manufactory House of the old colony times stood on theeast side of what is Hamilton Place. The west end frontedLong Acre, or Tremont Street, and had delineated upon the 302 OF \JM-
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . PARK STREET CHURCH. Edward D. Griffin, D. D., was the first pastor. Dwight, Beecher,Stone, and other gifted preachers have occupied its were vaults — long since removed — for the Banner, an Englisli architect, the same who made the planfor the fine old mansion-house of Eben Crafts in Eoxbury, de-signed this church. The Manufactory House of the old colony times stood on theeast side of what is Hamilton Place. The west end frontedLong Acre, or Tremont Street, and had delineated upon the 302 OF \JM- wall a female figure, distaff in liand, symbolic of the industryit was intended to promote. The establishment of spinning-schools is an interesting inci-dent in the history of Boston. Themanufacture of cotton had begun asearly as 1643, the raw material beingobtained from the West Indies. In1G65, owing to the scarcity of cloth,^ the court ordered spinning to be em-r ployed in private families, some abate-—1_^--= ment from the rates being made as? - compensation. About 1718 a number of colonists LINEN SPINNING-WHEEL. • 1 r Til T, • arrived irom Londonderry, bringingwith them the manufacture of linen and the implements usedin Ireland. The matter was earnestly taken up by the Bosto-nians, and a vote passed to establish a spinning-school on thewaste land in front of Captain Southacks, — about where Scol-lays buildings were. These emigrants like-wise introduced thegeneral use of their favorite vegetable, the potato. From these beginnings dates the estalilishment of the Manu-f
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