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Green, and Leverett streets had a beginning then, and Hanover street was well defined, Elm street meeting Washington street at the Town Dock.
Governor Winthrop, and many of the leaders of the community, were assigned house-lost near the Old South Church, and this became one centre of population.
Another colony was planted on the northern peninsula, and Hanover street and its branches were occupied by various notabilities.
In the first book of our records, only one street, Sudbury, is designated by name.
The “High street,” or the way leading towards Roxbury, designated Washington street. Other ways were: “To the Mill Cove,” “from Cove to Cove,” “to the Fort,” “to the Bridge,” “to John Barrett's,” “to Century Hill,” etc.
A careful study of the methods pursued in laying out our primitive highways, with the many changes and improvements made from the beginning, will serve to present a very correct and interesting topographic view of the Town and City of Boston in its growth and progress from time to time.
Published and sold by the compiler. Boston: Tolman & Withe, printers, 383 Washington Street. 1884.
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