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Title: Rand, McNally Boston guide to the city and environs, with maps and illustrations ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: New York, Chicago, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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BIRgHPLflCE OF FRANKLIN Milk Street, opposite OldSouth MeetinghousePage 35 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 105
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father, of Hawthorne, Emerson, andThoreau. Going out Monument St. from theSquare, across the railroad track, wecome to the old Jones-Keyes House, onthe right, still bearing the mark of aBritish bullet. Nearly opposite is the Old Manse, where Emerson wroteNature, but better known as the onetime home of Hawthorne and the subjectof his Mosses from an Old Manse.From this house Emersons motherwitnessed the fight at the Bridge. The Battle Ground is reached by a pine shaded lane near the Old Manse. This was the old highway and crossed the Old North Bridge. At the east end of the bridge stands the montmient to the unknown British dead, and on the opposite side of the river is the statue of the Minute-man by Daniel Chester French. Sudbury lies a few miles south of Concord, and there the Wayside Inn immortalized by Longfellow still attracts the wayfarer. Salem lies sixteen miles to the north of Boston. It isreached, either by train or trolley, by passing through Lynn(a city of 100,000 poptilati

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