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A garden of statues, shrubbery, plants and flowers, 1880
Building, Supt. Freeman Cushman, appointed, Apr. 19, 1841
Samuel C. Nottage, appointed Apr. 25, 1853
James C. Tucker, appointed, Feb. 29, 1864
Land, Supt. James Jackson, appointed, Nov. 2, 1829
Abner Bourne, appointed, May 1, 1837
Joel Wheeler, appointed, June 21, 1847
John McAllister, appointed, May 15, 1848
Stephen Tucker, appointed, Feb. 5, 1850
Public
Land, Supt. Robert W. Hall, appointed, Apr. 30, 1855
Q.
Quakers
Begin to be punished for their religious belief, 1655
Severe laws passed to punish them, 1656
Several were hanged for their profession, 1658
Three are whipped, and have their ears cut off, 1658
Several imprisoned, and fed on bread and water, 1677
Were allowed to attend their own meetings, 1737
Have a Church in Quaker lane, 1780
Church and burials removed to Lynn, 1825
Quarantine
a sort of, at Spectacle Island, 1720
Established at Rainsfor
toul, in office, 1844
Marcus Morton, in office, 1845
Charles Greeley, Jr., in office, 1849
Charles H. Peaslee, in office, 1853
Arthur W. Austin, in office, 1857
James S. Whitney, in office, 1860
John Z. Goodrich, in office, 1861
Hannibal Hamlin, in office, 1866
Thomas Russell, in office, 1867
William A. Simmons, in office, 1874
Alanson W. Beard, in office, 1878
Roland Worthington, in office, 1882
D.
Daguerreotype likenesses
first taken in Boston, Mar. 10, 1840
Dancing
in taverns prohibited by law, 1651
On ropes, prohibited by law, May 28, 1735
Dancing
Schools, prohibited by law, 1673
One opened by George Brownwell, May 28, 1735
Halls. Thirty open in Ann street, 12 o'clock night, Sep. 24, 1849
Dark Day
throughout New England, great alarm, May 19, 1780
Deaths in Boston
during the year 1710
485 during the year 1728
392 during the year 1786
889 during the year 1822
3,667 during the year 1850
4,391
useway streets, Jan. 22, 1847
Damrell & Moore's Printing House burned, Mar. 10, 1848
Albany and Hudson streets, conflagration, July 12, 1848
Tremont Temple, Tremont street, burned, Mar. 31, 1852
National Theatre, Portland street, burned, Apr. 26, 1852
Chickering's Building, Washington street, burned, Dec. 2, 1852
Johnson's Block, Commercial street, burned, Nov. 2, 1853
Pemberton House, Howard street, burned, May 16, 1854
Several vessels at Sargent's wharf, burned, Apr. 27, 1855
Gerrish Market, Portland street, burned, Apr. 12, 1856
Jefferson's Block, North street, and nine persons burned, July 29, 1856
East Boston Flour Mills, burned, Sep. 22, 1856
House and two children on Stillman street, burned, May 20, 1857
Several houses on Federal street, burned, May 2, 1858
Mechanical Bakery, Commercial street, burned, Feb. 6, 1859
Flour Mills, on Eastern Avenue, burned, Apr. 2, 1859
Westboroa Reform School buildings, burned, Aug. 12, 1859
Hous
Sumner, placed in Public Garden, Dec. 22, 1878
Washington, placed in the State House, Oct. 31, 1821
Equestrian, placed in Public Garden, July 3, 1869
Warren, placed on Bunker Hill, June 17, 1857
Webster, placed front of State House, Sep. 17, 1859
Winthrop, placed in Scollay's square, Sep. 17, 1880
Station
Home, in Sudbury street, for tramp lodgers, 1866
Sanitary, placed on little hill, on Common, Oct. 1, 1867
Steam engine
A model exhibited in Boylston Hall, May 1, 1830
First placed on Worcester Railroad, Mar. 17, 1834
Used in pile driving, at new Custom House, Sep. 1, 1837
St. George's Rooms
opened at Masonic Temple, Aug. 13, 1867
Saint Louis
City Government visit Boston, Oct. 2, 1865
Stocks
built, in which to punish criminals, Nov., 1639
A woman exposed in one, on King street, May 10, 1753
Storms
rain and wind.
The tide rose twenty feet high, Aug. 14, 1635
High tide does great damage, Nov. 12, 1641
Done much dama
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 graves robbed, great excitement, March, 1822
Grave robbery excitement renewed, Dec., 1829
Many trees planted by Supt. Hughes, Mst side, May, 1731
Second row of trees planted, east side, April, 1734
Two Pirates executed there, 1726
A fence built on the north side, Sep., 1737
Fox hill not to be dug any more, April, 1743
Burial ground laid out, south side, Sep. 1, 1756
Covered with British soldiers, Jan. 5, 1775
Third row of trees planted, east side, May, 1784
2 1/3 acres at S. E. corner bought of Mr. Foster, Dec. 10, 1787
New fence built, north and east sides, 1787
Mall prepared on the east s
ason Fairbanks, in Dedham, July 1, 1801
Timothy Kennedy, by Michael Powers, in South Russell street, Mar. 6, 1820
Anthony Hogan, by unknown, in Sudbury street, Nov. 9, 1822
Billy Williams, by Trask and Green, in State Prison, Jan. 2, 1822
Sarah Dix, by Darby and Gilgar, on Negro Hill, Dec. 3, 1824
Mr. Lambert, by seven boys, in Hanover street, June 20, 1825
Watchman Houghton, by John Holland, in State street, Dec. 12, 1825
Joseph White, by Knapp and others, at Salem, Apr. 16, 1830
John Rich, by Elmer Campbell, in Ann street, Sep. 24, 1832
Sarah M. Connell, by Ephraim K. Avery (susp.), Tiverton, R. I., Dec. 31, 1832
-Lowell, by-Riley, in Clinton street, Mar. 20, 1836
Ellen Jewett, by Richard P. Robinson, in New York City, Apr. 14, 1836
Charles N. Lincoln, by Abner Rogers, in State Prison, June 16, 1843
James Germain, by Charles Greenleaf, in Sudbury street, June 1, 1844
James Norton, by Peter York, in Richmond street, July 2, 1844
Murder
hn Brown, at Charlestown, Virginia, abolitionist, Dec. 2, 1859
President Lincoln's assassins, at Washington, July 7, 1865
Edward W. Green, at Cambridge, Converse murder, Apr. 13, 1866
James McElhaney, in jail, wife murder, Mar. 21, 1873
Franklin Evans, at Concord, N. H., Lovering murder, Feb. 17, 1874
James H. Costly, at Dedham, for murder, June 25, 1875
Louis Wagner, at Thomaston, Isle of Shoals, murder, June 25, 1875
George W. Pemberton, in jail, for Bingham murder, Oct. 8, 1875
Thomas W. Piper, in jail, for Mabel Young murder, May 26, 1876
Mr. Frost, at Worcester, for murder, May 26, 1876
Joseph B. Buswell, at Concord, N. H., for murder, July 10, 1879
Hanged
William H. Devlin, at Cambridge, for murder, Mar. 14, 1879
John P. Phair, at Windsor, Vt., for murder, July 10, 1879
Harbor
frozen over far down the bay, Dec. 26, 1630
Frozen over, far down the bay, Dec. 25, 1632
Good walking on the ice to Governor's Garden, Nov. 5, 1633
Fr
gland, 1829
Elder Knapp sensation, 1842
Advent Miller's sensation, 1843
Moody and Sankey, thirteen weeks in Boston, 1877
Representatives
for the town, chosen by the people, 1636
Dine on meat and wine at Town House, 1654
A Committee chosen to instruct them, 1700
Salaries paid by the town, 1729
Revere, Paul,
kept a shop opposite the Liberty Pole, 1784
Revenue
Collections, cause great excitement and opposition, 1682
Act, passed by the Home Government, April, 1764
Troubles commence in earnest, May, 1765
Riots, the order of the day, Nov., 1765
Collectors hung in effigy on the street, June, 1768
Office opened at Concert Hall, Nov. 10, 1768
Removed to Salem; Boston office closed, 1774
Reservoir
Cochituate, Beacon Hill, completed, Nov. 23, 1849
At South Boston, completed, Dec. 27, 1849
At Chestnut Hill, upper basin completed, Oct., 1868
At Chestnut Hill, lower basin completed, Oct. 25, 1870
On Parker Hill, completed, 18
