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Title: State Street : a brief account of a Boston way
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Streets
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Printed for the State Street Trust Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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lace of Perez Morton. Nowit is the home of the State Street Trust Company. LONG WHARF AND ITS STIRRINGEPISODES. THE houses that stood on Long Wharf arethought to have been the first numberedones in Boston. The numbers ran fromone to sixty-nine, inclusive. The Directory ofBoston for 1801 shows the highest street numberon State Street as eighty-two. On the north sideof Long Wharf, which the Directory says inevery respect exceeds anything of the kind in theUnited States, large and commodious stores areshown. Long Wharf had a thoroughfare thirtyfeet wide on one side and a space of fifteen feet inthe middle for boats to come up and unload.The wharf extended State Street one thousandseven hundred and forty-three feet into the harborin a straight line with the street, and the breadthof the wharf was one hundred and four feet, withseventeen feet of water at ebb tide at the end. Itwas the largest of the eighty wharves and quaysin Boston at this time. The wharf has witnessed many stirring and 9
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STATE STREET interesting scenes. It was the landing-place ofthe Royal Governors, who, escorted by the flowerof the Colonys Militia, marched up King Street tothe Town House. Here, in 1768, landed the firstBritish soldiers, sent over by the king to overawethe colonists, still incensed by the injustice of theStamp Act. Some of these soldiers were quarteredfor a time in the Old State House before going intocamp on the Common and Dock Square. TheFrench allies, under Rochambeau, were receivedhere with delight by the populace in 1775. Andon that momentous day, in June, 1775, the RoyalRegiment of Colonel Dalrymple marched downKing Street, embarked at Long Wharf, and en-tered the battle of Bunker Hill, from which manyof the regiment never returned. The old customof marching on State Street has continued, anddown this street went many of the regiments thatMassachusetts during the Rebellion sent to the front. GLEANINGS FROM AN OLD DI-RECTORY. TO the Bostonian of to-day the Directoryof 1801 also

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