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Identifier: antiqueviewsofye00star_0 (find matches)
Title: Antique views of ye towne of Boston
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Stark, James Henry
Subjects: Dwellings Historic buildings
Publisher: Boston : Published by ye Photo-electrotype engraving co. ...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 27 BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE, ENGLAND. The original name of Boston is supposed to be derived from anold British saint of the name of Botolph, who lived about A. D.650. The name is obtained from the Saxon boat and ulph, help,because. Botolph was the tutelar saint of mariners. For a longseries of ages but little is know n of English Boston. For nearlya thousand years succeeding its foundation, few of the vicissitudesattending it through that dark period have been recorded. Indeed,its history had hardly been attempted until its daughter on this sideof the Atlantic had, in most respects, far outgrown her mothercity. Two hundred and fifty years ago, at the time the fathers ofNew England left there, it was, and long had been, a famous andflourishing town, built on both sides of the river Witham, whichis here enclosed on both sides with artifical banks, over which wasa high wooden bridge, which has since been superseded with aniron one which cost £22,000. At a far remote

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  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Dwellings
  • booksubject:Historic_buildings
  • bookpublisher:Boston___Published_by_ye_Photo_electrotype_engraving_co_____
  • bookcontributor:Boston_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:Boston_Public_Library
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  • bookcollection:americana
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