Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . hat the taverns ofBoston were the original business exchanges;they combined the Counting House, the Ex-change Office, the Reading-room and the represented a locality. To the Lamb Tavern . . people went to see a man from Dedham — it was theresort of all from Norfolk County. The oldEastern Stage House in Ann Street was fre-quented by down Easters, captains of vessels,formerly from the Penobscot and Kennebec;there were to be seen groups of sturdy menseated round an enormous fire-place, c
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . hat the taverns ofBoston were the original business exchanges;they combined the Counting House, the Ex-change Office, the Reading-room and the represented a locality. To the Lamb Tavern . . people went to see a man from Dedham — it was theresort of all from Norfolk County. The oldEastern Stage House in Ann Street was fre-quented by down Easters, captains of vessels,formerly from the Penobscot and Kennebec;there were to be seen groups of sturdy menseated round an enormous fire-place, chalkingdown the price of bark and lumber, and shippersbringing in a vagrant tarpaulin to sign thearticles. To the Exchange Coffee House re-sorted the nabobs of Essex County; here thosearistocratic eastern towns, Newburyport andPortsmouth, were represented by ship ownersand ship builders, merchants of the first class.* The Lamb Tavern here referred to was onthe site of the present Adams House and itssign Is mentioned as early as 1746 in the bookswritten by foreign visitors to Boston. In later.
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