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Title: Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: Boston, The G. W. Armstrong dining room & news co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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om-mands a fine view of the harbor. A short distance to the eastis Squaw Rock, where there are benches chained to the rock.The tradition runs that once upon a time a broken-hearted Indianmaid threw herself into the sea from the crag, and from thislegend it got its name in the early days of the settlement. Quincy, settled first as Wollaston, in 1625, joined to Boston in1634, was incorporated as the town of Braintree in 1640. In 1792 TROLLEY TRIPS. 155 it became an independent town, with its present name. It hasbeen a city since 1889. It is now an important street railwaycentre, from which lines radiate in all directions. It lies onQuincy Bay, extending over rolling lands back from the water,on one side, into the Blue Hills region. The city is divided into anumber of distinct cjuarters: Quincy Centre, Houghs Neck,Germantown, Quincy Point, South Quincy or Quincy Adams,West Quincy, Wallaston, Norfolk Downs, North Quincy, At-lantic, and Squantum. Its chief interest centres in the fact that
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PHOTO BY C. B WEBSTER & CO. THE HOMES OF THE PRESIDENTS ADAMS.Quincy. it was the birthplace and burial-place of the two Presi-dents Adams, the birthplace of John Hancock, and thehome of the distinguished Quincy family, for a mem-ber of which. Colonel John Quincy. it was named. Itwas the place where granite quarries were first opened,to obtain granite for the Bunker Hill Monument; andthe place of the first railroad in the country, constructed forthe removal of granite to the shipping-point. Among its pointsof interest is the old church, where generations of Adamses andQuincys worshipped, where great men were baptized, and inwhose crypt lie the ashes of two Presidents of the United States. 156 GUIDE TO BOSTON. In the old burying-ground, nearly opposite the church, JohnHancock and others who were prominent in the history of theState are buried. Next in interest to the church and the burying-ground are the ancient houses still standing in South Quincy,where John Adams and John Quincy

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