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uth Boston, completed, Nov. 27, 1849
Pipes being laid across Charles River, Sep. 6, 1850
Water Works
Pipes in Tremont street being raised, Dec., 1866
Upper reservoir, Chestnut Hill, dedicated, Oct. 26, 1868
Lower reservoir, the water let in, Oct. 25, 1870
Great pains taken to suppress waste, Jan., 1871
Pumping machinery and stand-pipe built at Roxbury, 1869
Mystic water introduced at East Boston, Jan. 1, 1870
Reservoir on Parker Hill, built, 1874
Rights to Sudbury River secured, Jan., 1875
Register. J. Avery Richards, appointed, Jan. 4, 1849
William F. Davis, appointed Oct. 13, 1856
Wax Figures
on exhibition at American Coffee House, June 15, 1791
At the Columbian Museum, June 1, 1799
By Mrs. Pelby, at Phillips' Hall, May, 1846
To be seen at the Boston Museum, 1880
Webster, Daniel
great reception and dinner at Faneuil Hall, July 24, 1838
Presented with a silver urn, at Melodeon, Oct., 1835
Great reception at Faneuil Hall
the dock, to stop conflagration, Mar. 11, 1701
Town House, First Church, and 100 buildings burned, Oct. 2, 1711
Town House and many valuable records burned, Dec. 19, 1747
Several buildings burned on Marlboro strat the lower end of Milk street, Nov. 14, 1759
Town House, First Church, and 350 buildings burned, Mar. 20,ss and Water streets, Jan. 1, 1816
Kept in old Town-House, entrance, Washington street, 1840
Removed to n by the people, 1636
Dine on meat and wine at Town House, 1654
A Committee chosen to instruct them, 170Winthrop, Feb. 7, 1631
State
House. The old Town House occupied, Oct. 25, 1780
An attempt to remove fick Meeting-House, 1717
A vote to place one on Town House, 1717
Dock. The cove near Dock square, 1680
. 9, 1747
Rebuilt of brick and wood, 1748
Town House
again burned at the great fire, Mar. 20, 1760 orth and South, March, 1810
East removed, from Town-House to Kilby street, Sept., 1830
East, removed fro
rn New York city, Nov. 28, 1864
Minot's Block, Sudbury street, burned, Apr. 30, 1865
Parker House, School street, slightly damaged, June 8, 1865
48 families on Second street burned out, Feb. 16, 1866
Merrimac Stables, on Friend street, burned, Mar. 10, 1866
Pickle Factory, on Broad street, burned, May 22, 1866
Childs & Jenks' Picture Gallery, Tremont st., burned, June 18, 1866
Iron Foundry, on Lewis st., E. Boston, burned, July. 1, 1866
Destructive, at the city of Portland, Me., July 4, 1866
Manson & Peterson's Mills, Border street, East Boston, burned, Feb. 24, 1868
At Lynn, Boston engines sent, Jan. 26, 1869
Day's Cordage Store, Commercial street, burned, Nov. 25, 1869
Flour Mills on Commercial street, burned, Dec. 7, 1869
Severe one on Friend street. Apr. 30, 1870
Conflagration on Border street, East Boston, July 25, 1870
Nims' Stable, Mason street, and 25 horses burned, Oct. 31, 1870
Adelphi Theatre, rear Washington street, burned, F
to Boston, attempt defeated, Feb. 8, 1859
Roxbury to Boston, consummated, Jan. 6, 1868
Dorchonsecrated, Aug. 16, 1831
At Forest Hills, Roxbury, consecrated, June 28, 1848
At Woodlawn, C, consecrated, July 2, 1851
At Mount Hope, Roxbury, consecrated, June 24, 1852
See Burial Grod 93, Aug. 21, 1708
Chemical Chimney
at Roxbury; top blown off with powder, Sep. 19, 1873
ut up, 1640
Roxbury gate repaired, 1650
Roxbury gate again repaired, 1696
Embankment raiseec. 7, 1865
Ellen Kenny, by John Moran, in Roxbury, Mar. 30, 1866
Adolph Prager, by Frank Rouy, old Court-House remodeled, Jan. 6, 1868
Roxbury, on Dudley street, built, 1874
Roxbury, onRoxbury, on Pynchon street, built, 1869
On Seaverns avenue, Jamaica Plains, occupied, June 18, 1874
At B
A new division again made, Oct. 20, 1865
Roxbury annexed, making fifteen, Jan. 6, 1868
Divi
Pumping machinery and stand-pipe built at Roxbury, 1869
Mystic water introduced at East Bost[7 more...]
's guest, Oct, 11, 1858
President, Seceding States, 1861
Captured in Virginia, May 16, 1865
Bailed by Horace Greeley, in $100,000, May 13, 1867
Flag on a vessel at Gray's Wharf, destroyed, Apr. 17, 1861
Prisoners. Mayor Brown, of Baltimore, and others, at Fort Warren, Nov. 1, 1861
Mason and Slidell released from Fort Warren, June 1, 1862
Buckner and Tighlman, arrive at Fort Warren, Mar. 8, 1862
Brigadier Generals visit Boston, Apr. 28, 1878
Register of Deeds
of Bos. 29, 1645
Office kept at the Lamb Tavern, Oct. 11, 1786
Building, in Court square, completed, 1844
Regiment, Mass
returned from the Mexican War, July 26, 1848
6th.
Left Boston for Washington, Apr. 17, 1861
A critical time at Baltimore, Apr. 19, 1861
Three months men returned home, Aug. 1, 1861
Again went South, from Boston, Sep. 8, 1862
Again returned home from the war, Apr. 21, 1864
3d.
Went from Boston, South, to the war, Apr. 21, 1861
Three months men retu
n, June 5, 1838
Burgoyne, John
and army, prisoners of war at Winter Hill, Nov. 5, 1777
Leave Charlestown for Canada, prisoners exchanged, July 9, 1778
Burns, Nellie
a kidnapped child sensation, Apr. 8, 1870
Burial Grounds
King's Chapel, first interments, June 5, 1630
Several tombs built there, 1738
Burial Grounds
King's Chapel. It was said burials were four deep, 1739
Walls built next Tremont street, Oct., 1829
Copp's Hill, land purchased by the town, 1659 King's Chapel. It was said burials were four deep, 1739
Walls built next Tremont street, Oct., 1829
Copp's Hill, land purchased by the town, 1659
Enlarged upon the south side, 1706
Tablets destroyed by British soldiers, 1775
Trees planted on the north part, 1843
Enclosed by an iron fence, 1848
Granary, opened at the head of the Common, 1660
Tombs allowed to be built there, 1717
Many trees planted there, May, 1830
Iron fence next Tremont street built, 1840
Common, laid out by the town, Sep. 1, 1756
Iron fence enclosure completed, Nov. 19, 1839
Neck, the town vote to open the lot, Aug. 3, 1810
Many grave
ez, in Hanover street, Oct. 30, 1860
Murder
Michael Orphin, by John Fitzgerald, on Fort Hill, Mar. 13, 1861
Barney Ford, by Mike Sullivan, in North street, Nov. 22, 1862
Nathan Breed, by Horace Davis, in West Lynn, Dec. 22, 1862
James M. Sawyer, by Edward Owens, in Winter street, Aug. 24, 1863
Frank Converse, by Edward W. Green, in Malden, Dec. 14, 1863
Abraham Lincoln, by J. Wilkes Booth, in Washington, D. C., Apr. 14, 1865
Morris Folay, by Wm. J Felton (susp.), in South street, Oct. 1, 1864
Joyce children, by unknown, in Bussey's Woods, West Roxbury, June 12, 1865
Thomas Jackson, by unknown, in Hanover street, Nov. 20, 1865
Dennis Coakley, by John Gallagher, in Washington street, Dec. 7, 1865
Ellen Kenny, by John Moran, in Roxbury, Mar. 30, 1866
Adolph Prager, by Frank Rounds, in Washington street, Sep. 15, 1866
Cornelius Holmes, by Samuel M. Andrews, in Kingston, (susp.), May 28, 1868
Joseph G. Clark, by Thos. James, in Worcester, Feb.