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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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merson 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 poptilation,) one of the greatest shoe manu-facturing places of the country, and the location of the im-mense works of the General Electric Company. Salem hasmore than 40,000 population and mingles the quaintly historic Washington, Christ ChurchPage 84
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The Charles River and Waltham Watch FactoryPage 50 106 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE with the bustlinglymodem. Crossingthe railroad track(over the tunnel)runs Essex St., eastand west. To theeast are to be foundEssex Institute atNo. 132, with alibrary of nearly100,000 volumesand more than300,000 pamphlets,and a most interest-ing exhibit. OnUnion St. is the oldgambrel-r oof edhouse built in 1692,in which Hawthornewas born. TheCustom H ousewhere Hawthornewas surveyor of theport, 1846-1849, ison Derby St. On Turner St. is the House of the Seven Gables, recently restored to its ancientcondition, and now a most delightful place to visit, with itshidden stairway reaching to the attic and many other un-expected features. Across the old fashioned-garden from theHouse of the Seven Gables is the Hooper-Hathaway House,which once stood on Washington St. near the north entranceto the tunnel. It was built about 1683 and for many yearswas known as the OldBakery. It has been re-stored since its removal an

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