The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . his church in 1815. Its interior stillretains its old-time appearance. The tablet on the front bearsthis inscription, *The signal lanterns of Paul Revere displayedin the steeple of this church April i8th, 1775, warned thecountry of the march of the British troops to Lexington andConcord. In no other city in America is the historic lore so abund-ant as it is in Boston. Within the radius of Boylston streetand the water front a
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . his church in 1815. Its interior stillretains its old-time appearance. The tablet on the front bearsthis inscription, *The signal lanterns of Paul Revere displayedin the steeple of this church April i8th, 1775, warned thecountry of the march of the British troops to Lexington andConcord. In no other city in America is the historic lore so abund-ant as it is in Boston. Within the radius of Boylston streetand the water front at the north end, every rod is freightedwith the history of the founding of New England. Fewbuildings yet remain of the earliest period, and such as doare in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Medford, places where thecommercial growth has been moderate, but in the City ofBoston, as one wanders through its streets, the eye meetstablets placed at various localities, which tell the story inbrief of an event coincident with the life of the forefathers,and as we read them our mind conjectures what those bravepioneers would ga^ gould they witness the change? as existingto-day. 139. V \ Let us take a little journey through the streets and readthe inscriptions placed in various localities by the Antiquarianand Historical societies; it will prove interesting, at least: At No. 409 Commercial street is Constitution Wharf, so named from the fact that here the Frigate Constitution (old Ironsides) was No. 379, the North Battery, a fortification was built here in 1646, and not removed until after the Revolutionary War corner of Pearl street and Atlantic avenue was located Griffins Wharf, where the citizens in 1773 threw into the sea the cargoes of tea with which the three British ships lying there were No. 19 North Square Paul Revere resided from corner of Hanover and Clark streets is the site of the new North Meeting House, North Square and Moon street sto
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