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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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eaking persons of theNorth End. It not only maintainsclasses for children but extends itsservice through teaching better livingconditions and higher standards amongparents. Several thousand persons arereached each year in this way. ENVIRONS Cambridge, a city of 115,000, is connected with Boston bysix bridges besides Charles River Dam and the picturesqueviaduct. The viaduct, with its arches of reinforced concrete, forms an elevated struc-ture for trolley cars betweenBoston and East Cam-bridge. Near by is theCharles River Dam, whichtakes the place of oldCraigie Bridge. The nextbridge is now called Cam-bridge Bridge. It is thesuccessor to West BostonBridge and the old *bridgewith the wooden piers.Over this run the trainsfrom the Cambridge Tunnelas well as surface cars.Above this there is HarvardBridge, the chief artery forcross town travel. Next inorder come Brookline St.,Cambridge St. or River St.,Western Ave., and LarzAnderson bridges. Cam-bridge has very manypoints of interest besides
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Washington Elm—CambridgePage 95 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE 95 O BIRTHPLACE or O Rev. S.F Smith D.D. AUTHOR or AnCRICA 1808-1885 ERCCTCO BY THE Old South Chapter OAuCHTrRS or the American RtvotuTioNO 1867 O 37 Sheafe Street those connected with Harvard College.It is a manufacturing city of con-siderable importance, with the bigbook-making plants of the Riversideand Atheneum Press, large packinghouses, and other industries. Justbeyond Harvard Sq., near the Com-mon, still stands the famous old. Washington Elm under which he first took command of theAmerican Anny. Christ Church, built in 1760, and the adjoining buryingground, which dates from 1636, are also on Garden St. Nearthe cemetery fence stands one of the many milestones set upby Governor Dudley, with the inscription: Boston, 8miles, 1734. There was no bridge across the Charles belowCottage Farms at that time. Now Boston is eight minutesinstead of eight miles from Cambridge. Craigie-Longfellow House. On Brattle St., just beyondthe

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