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Title: Boston, a guide book
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bacon, Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe), 1844-1916 National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting (1910 : Boston, Mass.)
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Ginn and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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rterof the Colony by its greatseal; in his left the Bible.Behind the figure appearsthe base of a newly hewnforest tree, wdth a rope at-tached, significant of the fas-tening of a boat. The statueis the work of Richard S.Greenough and is a copy ofthe marble one in the Cap-itol at Washington. It wascast in Rome. It was firsterected in 1880, on the 250thanniversary of the settle-ment of Boston. It nowstands on Marlborough Streetbeside the First Church.About where the ScollaySquare Station stands, or a little north of its site, was the firstFree Writing School, set up in 1683-1684. This was the secondschool in the town, the first being on School Street, as we shallpresently see. It continued in use till after the Revolution (orabout 1793), latterly known as the Central Reading and WritingSchool. Looking down Court Street eastward, we have in near view thesomber-pillared front of the Old Court House, dating from 1836. It wasdesigned by Solomon Willard, the architect of Bunker Hill Monument,
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Court Street COLONIAL PRISON Its exterior is of Quincy granite. The ponderous fluted columns(originally eight in all, there having .been a row on the rear as wellas in front) weigh each twenty-five tons. The first two were broughtover the roads from Quincy by sixty-five yoke of oxen and tenhorses, making a great street show. This building was the centerof the exciting scenes attending the fugitive slave cases in 1851 and1854. Here is the main entrance to the East Boston Tunnel. Here occurred first, in February, 1851, the rescue of Shadrach, who had beenconfined in the United States court room awaiting action upon a process for hisrendition. Six weeks later came the ThomasSims affair, when, to prevent the rescue of thisslave, the building was guarded and surroundedwith chains breast high, under which the judgesand all others having business within wereobliged to stoop to reach the doors. Finally,in May, 1854, occurred the Anthony Burns riot,on the evening of the 26th, with the failure

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