Book/Printed Material Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
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Image 1 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 2 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 4 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 5 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. £^mb. :\PHOTOELECTROTYPEj ^v S y^^^f 7^^ BOSTON, MASS.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 6 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. T The Palac3 Line of Boston Harbor. THE ONLY LINE LANDING PASSENGERS DIRECTLY ON NANTASKET BEACH. STEAMERS NANTASKET, GOV. ANDREW, ROSE STANDISH, AND JOHN ROMER. WILL MAKE DAILY EXCURSIONS TO hiM Isach,...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 7 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 8 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 9 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BOSTON HARBOR COMPILED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, GIVING A COMPLETE AND RELIABLE HISTORY OF EVERY ISLAND AND HEAD- LAND IN THE HARBOR, FROM THE EARLIEST DATE TO THE...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 10 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. Copyright, 1880. By the Photo-Electkotyfe Co., Boston. Illustrated, Electrotyped, and Printed by the Photo-Electrotype Co Boston. F13
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 11 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. PREFACE. The compiler of this small history of Boston Harbor and its Islands has endeavored to give a correct and faithful account of it. The infor- mation contained therein is collected from...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 12 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 13 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BOSTON HARBOR INTRODUCTION. It is a strange fact, but nevertheless true, that, of the thousands of people in Boston, many have never been down the harbor, and but very...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 14 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. VI ILLUSTRATED HISTORY Style of architecture, and the dark-red covering that forms an important feature in the outer ornamentation of hundreds of structures. The time-honored, chaste, and beautiful white cottages with green...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 15 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. OF BOSTON HARBOR YACHTING has also increased in the last few years, and now several yacht clubs are organized with hundreds of sail. They are to be seen in every direction on...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 16 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 17 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY CHAPTER I. EXCURSION NO. I FROM ROWE s WHARF TO NANTASKET BEACH. FORT POINT, AND THE OLD SCONCE BATTERY. CHARLESTOWN, BUNKER- HILL MONUMENT, AND NAVY YARD. DESCRIPTION OF EAST BOSTON,...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 18 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. 2 OF BOSTON HARBOR. on which may be perceived a tall granite shaft that marks the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Toward the water s edge, situated on the easterly...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 19 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 20 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 21 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY 3 yards can be obtained from Noddle s Island, for the oldest inhabitant can only remember two trees growing upon the island previous to its purchase by the East Boston...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 22 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. OF BOSTON HARBOR. CHAPTER II. BIRD-ISLAND SHOAL ONCE AN ISLAND AND PLACE OF EXECUTION FOR PIRATES. WINTHROP S OR GOVERNOR S ISLAND IS GRANTED TO GOV. WINTHROP. PECULIAR TERMS OF TENURE TO...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 23 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY 5 took its name from Roger Conant, a distinguished early settler of Plym- outh. The first known of this island is that on July 2, 163 1, it was appropriated...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 24 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. OK BOSTON HARBOR. one bushel to the Governor another to the generall court in winter the same to be the best apples there growing. The records show that in the fall of...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 25 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY 7 tion now in process of erection on the summit cf the high hill on the island has been named Fort Winthrop, in remembrance of the first Governor to whom...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 26 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. OF BOSTON HARBOR. CHAPTER TIL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE A FORT IN THE HARBOR. FORT AT CASTLE ISLAND UNDERTAKEN. DESCRIPTION OF THE FORT BY CAPT. JOHN- STON AND CAPT. ROGER CLAP. THE CASTLE...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 27 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY 9 it was agreed by all that to build a fort there it would be too great charge of little vse wherevpon the planting of that place was deferred. Not...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 28 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. lO OF BOSTON HARBOR. idence of Sion s Saviour, printed in 1654, speaks of the fort on Castle Island as follows The Castle is built on the northeast of the Island, upon...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 29 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY gence came to us that Durother, a Dutch commander of a squadron of ships, was in the West Indies, and did intend to visit us, whereupon our Battery also was...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 30 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. 12 OF BOSTON HARBOR. tons, having on board the same number of persons. The Governor and his family were on their island when M. La Tour came up the harbor in his...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 31 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY I3 About this time the armament and military property of the fort con- sisted of six murthers, two boats, a drum, two muskets, and a suitable number of pikes for...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 32 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. 14 OF BOSTON HARBOR. The Castle was used as a place of confinement for thieves and other convicts sentenced to hard labor, from 1 785 till the State s Prison in Charlestown...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 33 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY CHAPTER IV. APPLE ISLAND. USED AS A MARLNE RESIDENCE. IS OWNED BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, ESTES HATCH, JAMES MORTIMER, WILLIAM MARSH. HOUSE BURNT IN 1 835. THE ISLAND PURCHASED BY THE...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 34 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. 1 6 OF BOSTON HARBOR. Mortimer s decease in 1773, the following extract is taken from his will Apple Island, so called, in Boston Harbor, and with the building there- on ;^200...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 35 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY 1 7 legal proofs of the identity of Robert Wilcox, the reputec^ owner. This evidence he did not obtain till 1830, a few years before his decease, when the purchase...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 36 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. 1 8 OF BOSTON H.\RBOR. CHAPTER V. president s road. LOWER MIDDLE. THOMPSON S ISLAND. —STAND- ISH \TSITS THE ISLAND IN 1 62 1. IS SETTLED BY DAVID THOMPSON IN 1626. THE...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 37 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY I9 in ancient times was dignified by the name of river. The creek has this year (1879) had a dike built across it, and the pond drained so as to...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 38 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor. 20 OF BOSTON HARBOR. after the settlement of Dorchester and Boston, it was granted by the General Court of the Colony to the town of Dorchester, in the following words, under date...
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 39 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880
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Image 40 of Illustrated history of Boston harbor.
- Contributor: Stark, James Henry
- Date: 1880