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Some old sites on an old thoroughfare and an account of some early residents thereon

Macullar, Parker Company, 1918. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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book

Author

Macullar, Parker Company

Publisher

Boston : Printed for Macullar Parker company

Published, as stated

1918

Language

en

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F 73.67 W3M17 1 ^vV)-':-.,'^,^/';./;^^*':-:^. :, We have issued this little book at this time to mark another era in the history of our business. We hope that^ aside from the personal references contained^ it will prove of interest and value from an historical viewpoint. MACULLAR PARKER COMPANY June, IQ18. '^^ SOME OLD SITES i^ ON AN '^ OLD THOROUGHFARE And an Account of Some Early Residents Thereon ^mm%mm^^ PRINTED FOR MACULLAR PARKER COMPANY m BOSTON r Copyright, 1918 BY Macullar Parker Company rj{' 15 ii ^//,'A />/>/^/>y/ •^y/zYY'//'. iii)>yi¥i'L Business Card of the old Washington Cofee House The heading to page $ is from an engraving published in "Gleasons Pictorial' and shows a portion of the east side of Washington Street from Franklin Street south in i8^j Research Work by Walter K. Watkims arranged and printed by direction of walton advertising & printing co. boston, mass. 3.fo7 ^ ^mmm foreword m^. rj a previous history of Washington Street pubhshed by us, facts were presented concerning that section of the great thoroughfare between School and Milk, Summer and \\'inter Streets where the house of Macullar Parker has been located for more than half a century. Washington Street undoubtedly is the most notable and probably the longest highway in New England. Beginning as little more than a blazed trail, it has from century to century wound its irregular way until it has reached beyond Massachusetts borders into Rhode Island without changing its name. It has the distinction of being the first road laid out in the Massachusetts Colony, and, according to an order of June, 1636, it was begun as a footpath which led over the Neck to Roxbury. The order which concerns this^ famous "High Waye towards Roxburie" in the year 1636 is to the effect that "there shall be a sufficient footway from William Coleburne's field-end into Samuel Wyeborne's field-end next Roxbury, by the surveyors of highways before the last of the 5th month." This order shows that there were surveyors of highways in the Colony at this early date. Early Washington Street is supposed to have extended from the corner of Dover Street to the northerly Roxbury line, which was the south end of Boston Neck. The early road laid out towards Roxbury was on the easterly side of the present Washington Street, very near the beach, the road starting from near Beach Street. We count it a privilege to tell the tale of these early days and to place a permanent record of them in the hands of readers of history. The house of Macullar Parker has gathered these interesting facts concerning the former title-holders of the sites it has occupied on Washington Street, and has recalled various associations connected with former residents. As we have read the records of these early days, it seems but a short while ago that the Market Place existed and in the Puritan households were enacted the stirring scenes of the Revolution, while the stage coaches accompanied by the crack of drivers' whips and baying hounds drove up to the Washington Coffee House and the old Marlborough Hotel that travellers might be re- freshed. So we bring them back — those days — in which "mine host" plays no small part, and in which industry and trade contribute a valuable furtherance not only to the history of the Street but also to its development. 3 |i1MMM'|ilMn'|i|iMIMM'IMi|ilMMilMMMiinilMMMMilM'IMMiin

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