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Identifier: oldbostontaverns00dra (find matches)
Title: Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 Watkins, Walter Kendall, 1855- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bars (Drinking establishments) Clubx
Publisher: Boston, W. A. Butterfield
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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re landed in boats and lighters. Farback, in the beginning of things, when everything hadto be transported by water to and from the neighboringsettlements, this was naturally the busiest place inBoston. In time Dock Square became, as its name in-dicates, a sort of delta for the confluent lanes runningdown to the dock below it. Here, for a time, was centred all the movement toand from the shipping, and, we may add, about all thecommerce of the infant settlement. Naturally the vicin-ity was most convenient for exposing for sale all sortsof merchandise as it was landed, which fact soon led tothe establishment of a corn market on one side of thedock and a fish market on the other side. The Royal Exchange stood on the site of the Mer-chants Bank, in State Street. In this high-soundingname we find a sure sign that the town had outgrownits old traditions and was making progress toward morecitified ways. As time wore on a town-house had beenbuilt in the market-place. Its ground floor was pur-
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THE ROYAL EXCHANGE TAVERN (Merchants Bank site, State Street)The tall white building, mail coach just leaving THE EARLIER ORDINARIES. 25 posely left open for the citizens to walk about, discussthe news, or bargain in. In the popular phrase, theywere said to meet on change, and thereafter thisplace of meeting was known as the Exchange, whichname the tavern and lane soon took to themselves asa natural right. A glance at the locality in question shows the choiceto have been made with a shrewd eye to the future.For example: the house fronted upon the town market-place, where, on stated days, fairs or markets for thesale of country products were held. On one side thetavern was flanked by the well-trodden lane which ledto the town dock. From daily chaffering in a smallway, those who wished to buy or sell came to meethere regularly. It also became the place for populargatherings, — on such occasions of ceremony as the pub-lishing of proclamations, mustering of troops, or punish-ment of cri

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