The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-10
A bit of Old Long Wharf.
City, Modelled After London, Is Still
Highly Suggestive of the British
Metropolis--lnteresting Places
i'm the Stored Town

street on the south side and Merchants
row on the north side. The Great Cove
swept inside of these streets. Merchants
row followed the shore northWard to
a smaller cove. stretching from where
is now North Market street and the
quincy Market (the first Mayor Quincy's
monumenD and over the site of
I Faneuil Hall to Dock Square, which
became the Town Dock. Other
pioneer highways were the nucleus of
| the present fremont street. originally
/ running along the northeastern spurs
| % the then broad spreading Beacon
| Hill and passing through the Common;
| Hanover street, at first n narrow lane,
| from what is now Scollay Square, and
/ Ann, aftcrward North street. from
| Dock Square, both leading TO the fer
ries by Cops Hin, where tradition
says the Indians had their ferry. Court
street was first Prison lane, from the
Market Place to the prison, a grewsome
dungeon, early set up, where now
! stands the modern City Hall Annex.
| In its day II harbored pirates and Qua
kers, and Hawthorne fanCied II fon the
! opening scenes of his Scarlet Letter"
| School street took its name from the
| first sChoolhouse and the first school
whence sprang the Boston Latin School.
which feliCitates itself that 1t antedates
| the university at Cambridge and dan
| died Harvard College on its knee" Milk
| street, first Fort lane" was the first
way to Fort Hill on the harbor front
Summer street. first "Mylne lane" led
to Widow Tuthlls Windmill" near
I, where was Church Green. up to which
the water came. ''Cow lane" now High
street, led from Church Green, or Mil
lane, to the foot of Fort Hill. Essex
street was originally at It's eastern end
| part of the first Cartway to the Neck
and ROXbury. a beach road that ran
along the south shore of the South
Cove, another expansive ndentation.
extending from the harbor on the south
side of Fort Hill to the Neck. Boyl-
ston street, originally "Frog lane" and
holding fast to this bucolic appe,lation
into the nineteenth century, was a
| Swampy way running westward along
| the south side of Boston Common tow
ard the open Back Bay--the back basin
| OF the Charlcs-thcn flowing up to a
pebhly beach at the Commons west
ern edge and to the present Park
Square.
Here. then, on the levels about the
Great Cove, in the form of n crescent,
facing the sea and backed by the
three peaked hill, the town was cstab-
lished.
The first occupa lion was within the
scant territory bounded, generally
speaking, on the east by State street
at the high water line of the Great
Cove; northerly by MercantI row
around to near the site of Faneuil
Hall; northwesterly by Dock Square
and Hanover street; westerly by the
| hi n nd
by School and MIX streets; and Milk
street again to the water then work
ing up toward the present Liberty
Square at the junction of Kilhy. Water
and BatterymarCh streets. Soon. how
ever, the limits expanded, reaching
southwark to Summer street, and not
long after to Essex and Boylston
streets; eastward to the harbor front
at and around Fort Hill westward and
northwestward, about another broad
coNe-this the North Cove, laten the
NH Cove with busy mills about IT,
an indentation on the north OF Beacon
Hill by the widening of the Charles
River at its mouth and covering the
space now Haymarket Square; and
northward, over the peninsua's North
End, which early became the seat of
gentility.
No further expansion of moment was
made through the Colony period, and
the extension was slight during the
Province period Beacon Hill, except
its slopes, remained till after the Revo-
luton in its primitive state, it's long
western reach a place OF pastures over
which the cows roamed, and the bar
berry and the wild rose grew.
The foot of the Common on he mar
gin of the glinting Back Bay was the
Towns west boundary till after the
Revolution and into the nineteenth cen,