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Plaque 1:Top
TO THOSE MEN OF
THE NORTH END
WHO DEFENDED WITH THEIR LIVES
THE INTEGRITY OF THE UNION IN THE
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
* * * 1861 - 1865 * * *
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THOMAS CASS
1821 - 1862
BORN IN IRELAND, HE ATTACHED HIMSELF DEVOTEDLY TO THE
IDEALS OF HIS ADOPTED COUNTRY. AT THE BREAKING OUT OF
THE CIVIL WAR, HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO RESPOND TO THE
CALL OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN FOR VOLUNTEERS. HE ORGANIZED
THE FAMOUS NINTH REGIMENT, WHICH UNDER HIS COMMAND
DISTINGUISHED ITSELF IN THE SEVEREST FIGHTING OF THE
WAR. - - - - - - - ON JULY 1, 1862, HE WAS MORTALLY
WOUNDED AT MALVERN HILL, VIRGINIA, AND WAS BROUGHT
HOME TO HIS RESIDENCE, 14 NORTH BENNET STREET, WHERE
HE DIED JULY 12. AT THE END OF THE WAR THE REGIMENT
WAS BROUGHT HOME UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL
PATRICK HANLEY. HE WAS BORN IN IRELAND AND LIVED
AT 15 CLARK STREET
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Plaque 2:Top
THE SALUTATION TAVERN
OPENED IN 1662, STOOD ON THE NORTH EAST CORNER OF
SALUTATION AND NORTH STREETS
ADJOINING THIS MALL
IT WAS THE MEETING PLACE OF
THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY
AND IN IT WAS PLANNED
The Boston Tea Party
HERE SAMUEL ADAMS, JOSIAH QUINCY, JR., JOSEPH WARREN,
PAUL REVERE, JOHN ADAMS, JAMES OTIS
AND THE NORTH END SHIP CAULKERS URGED
The Independence of America
* * *
THE GREEN DRAGON TAVERN
CALLED BY DANIEL WEBSTER "THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE REVOLUTION"
STOOD ON UNION ST. NEAR HANOVER.
IT WAS A MEETING PLACE OF THE PATRIOTS DURING
THE EARLY YEARS OF THE REVOLUTION.
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Plaque 3:Top
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH
THE FIRST BUILDING ON THIS SITE WAS
THE NEW NORTH MEETING HOUSE
ERECTED IN 1714 AND ENLARGED IN 1730
AT THE REQUEST OF GENERAL WASHINGTON, MARCH 28, 1776,
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE EVACUATION OF BOSTON BY THE BRITISH,
THE REVEREND ANDREW ELIOT, THEN MINISTER,
PREACHED A SERMON OF THANKSGIVING
"IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS EXCELLENCY AND A RESPECTABLE AUDIENCE"
* * * * *
THE PRESENT BUILDING WAS DESIGNED BY
CHARLES BULFINCH IN 1802
AND ITS BELL WAS CAST BY PAUL REVERE.
IT WAS ENLARGED AND REDEDICATED IN 1875 AS
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH
UNDER THE REVEREND GEORGE FOXCROFT HASKINS,
FOUNDER OF THE "HOUSE OF THE ANGEL GUARDIAN" FOR BOYS
* * * * *
Plaque 4:Top
JOHN WINTHROP
1588 – 1649
IN THE EARLY AUTUMN OF 1630, WINTHROP AND HIS COMPANY LANDED AT THE FOOT
OF PRINCE STREET FROM CHARLESTOWN. THUS WAS BEGUN THE SETTLEMENT OF BOSTON.
THE SPIRIT OF WINTHROP IS FOREVER A CHALLENGE TO AMERICA:
"To avoid shipwreck and provide for our posterity, we must do justly,
love mercy, walk humbly. For this end we must be knit together
as one man. We must make others' condition our own, rejoice
together, labor and suffer together, always as members of the same body"
* * * * *
NICHOLAS UPSALL
1596 – 1666
OWNER IN 1654 OF THE "RED LYON INN" AT NORTH AND RICHMOND STREETS. FOR
GIVING AID TO QUAKERS, HE WAS PERSECUTED BY THE AUTHORITIES AND SUFFERED
IMPRISONMENT AND EXILE. HE LIES BURIED IN COPP'S HILL BURYING GROUND.
EMBEDDED IN THE WALL OF THE BUILDING THAT STANDS WHERE HIS INN ONCE STOOD,
IS THE OLDEST SIGN IN BOSTON, INSCRIBED WITH THE INITIALS OF TIMOTHY WADSWORTH,
1694, AND HIS WIFE, SUSANNAH, GRANDDAUGHTER OF NICHOLAS UPSALL
* * * * *
COTTON MATHER
1663 – 1728
THEOLOGIAN, HISTORIAN, EMINENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE THEOCRATIC RULE
WHICH GAVE WAY BEFORE THE ADVANCE OF DEMOCRACY. A DISTINGUISHED SON
OF THE NORTH END. HE LIVED AT THE CORNER OF HANOVER AND NORTH BENNET
STREETS, AND LIES BURIED WITH HIS FATHER, INCREASE AND HIS SON, SAMUEL, IN
COPP'S HILL BURYING GROUND
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JOHN HULL
1624 – 1683
MINT MASTER. THROUGH HIS PASTURE, THE PRESENT HULL STREET WAS LAID OUT
IN 1701. THE FIRST PINE TREE MONEY OF NEW ENGLAND WAS COINED IN HIS
HOUSE ON SHEAFE STREET. POINT JUDITH, PART OF HIS LAND IN RHODE ISLAND,
WAS NAMED BY HIM FOR HIS WIFE, JUDITH QUINCY
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Plaque 5:Top
SIR WILLIAM PHIPS
1651 – 1695
FIRST ROYAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS UNDER THE CHARTER OF 1691. ONE OF TWENTY-SIX
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, A POOR BOY, APPRENTICED TO A SHIP'S CARPENTER IN THE NORTH END.
IN 1687, HE RECOVERED FROM A SPANISH GALLEON SUNKEN OFF THE COAST OF HAITI, A
TREASURE OF BULLION, COIN, AND PLATE WHICH HE TURNED OVER TO HIS PRINCIPALS IN
ENGLAND, TO THEIR GREAT ENRICHMENT. FOR THIS SERVICE THE KING HONORED HIM WITH
KNIGHTHOOD, UPON WHICH FOLLOWED HIS APPOINTMENT AS GOVERNOR. HE LIVED AT THE
CORNER OF CHARTER AND SALEM STREETS IN A MANSION HE HAD DREAMED OF AS A BOY
* * * * *
JOSEPH WARREN
1741 – 1775
TEACHER, PHYSICIAN, PATRIOT LEADER OF THE NORTH END CAUCUS, AUTHOR OF THE SUFFOLK
RESOLVES WHICH FORESHADOWED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND PRESIDENT
OF THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. HE LIVED ON HANOVER STREET. HIS HEROIC DEATH AT THE
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL WAS COUNTED BY THE BRITISH GENERAL HOWE EQUAL TO THE LOSS
OF FIVE HUNDRED MEN TO THE PATRIOT CAUSE
"When Liberty is the Prize, Who would shun the warfare?
Who would stoop to waste A Coward thought on life?"
* * * * *
JOHN MANLEY
1733 – 1793
ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED NAVAL OFFICERS OF THE REVOLUTION. COMMISSIONED
BY GENERAL WASHINGTON TO INTERCEPT BRITISH SUPPLIES FOR THE ARMY OCCUPYING
BOSTON, HE CAPTURED THE TRANSPORT "NANCY" AND THUS MADE INEVITABLE THE EVACUATION
OF BOSTON BY GENERAL HOWE. FOR HIS SKILL AND DARING HE RECEIVED THE WRITTEN
COMMENDATION OF WASHINGTON: "Your behavior since you first engaged in the service
merits mine and your country's thanks". IN 1776, A RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS APPOINTED
HIM SECOND ON THE LIST OF CAPTAINS IN THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED NAVY. HE LIVED
ON WEBSTER AVENUE, THE SITE OF THIS MALL, AND DIED ON CHARTER STREET
* * * * *
EDMUND HARTT
1744 – 1824
BUILDER OF THE FRIGATE CONSTITUTION WHICH BROUGHT UNDYING GLORY TO THE AMERICAN FLAG
"And many an eye has danced to see that banner in the sky"
HE LIVED AND DIED ON CHARTER STREET, AND LIES BURIED IN COPP'S HILL BURYING GROUND. HIS "NAVAL
YARD" STOOD ON THE SITE NOW COVERED BY CONSTITUTION WHARF, AT THE FOOT OF HANOVER STREET.
* * * * *
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PAUL REVERE
1735 – 1818
PATRIOT, MASTER CRAFTSMAN,
GOOD CITIZEN
LANTERNS HUNG IN THE "NORTH CHURCH STEEPLE"
GAVE THE SIGNAL TO SPREAD THE ALARM THAT THE
BRITISH WERE ADVANCING, APRIL 18, 1775, TO CAPTURE
THE MILITARY STORES IN CONCORD. CHRIST CHURCH
OVERLOOKING THIS GROUND IS NOW KNOWN AS THE OLD NORTH
* * * * *
"On the opposite shore, walked Paul Revere
. . . . . . . . .
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
. . . . . . . . .
A second lamp in the belfry burns!
. . . . . . . . .
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,-
. . . . . . . . .
Through all our history to the last,
The people will waken and listen to hear
. . . . . . . . .
. . . .The midnight message of Paul Revere."
* * *
BORN ON HANOVER STREET LIVED IN NORTH SQUARE, ESTABLISHED
HIS BELL FOUNDRY ON FOSTER STREET AND DIED ON CHARTER STREET
* * * * *
WILLIAM DAWES
1745 – 1799
CHARGED BY JOSEPH WARREN TO NOTIFY THE COUNTRYSIDE
AND TO WARN SAMUEL ADAMS AND JOHN HANCOCK AT
LEXINGTON THAT THE BRITISH WERE ON THE MARCH,
HE RODE IN THE NIGHT OF APRIL 18, 1775 BY WAY
OF ROXBURY, THUS HE STANDS WITH PAUL REVERE
AS A DARING MESSENGER OF THE COLONIAL
CHALLENGE TO BRITISH DOMINATION
HE LIVED AT SIXTEEN
NORTH STREET
Plaque 7:Top
PAUL REVERE MALL
ESTABLISHED 1933 FROM THE INCOME OF THE
GEORGE ROBERT WHITE FUND
BEQUEATHED TO THE CITY OF BOSTON
FOR CREATING WORKS OF PUBLIC UTILITY AND BEAUTY
* * * * *
DEDICATED TO THE ENJOYMENT OF THE COMMUNITY
AND TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NORTH END WHO HELPED TO MAKE BOSTON
THE PRIDE OF LATER GENERATIONS
[MAP]
THIS MAPS REPRODUCES A PORTION OF CAPT. JOHN BONNER'S MAP OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON 1722 AND INCLUDES THE OLD NORTH END,
MIDDLE AND NORTH STREETS BECAME HANOVER STREET, SHIP STREET BECAME NORTH STREET
THE SITE OF THE PAUL REVERE MALL BUILT 1934 IS DEDICATED ON THE MAP BY A STAR
THE SITE OF THIS MALL
WAS ONCE A PART OF THE PASTURE OF CHRISTOPHER STANLEY
WHO DIED IN 1646 LEAVING A SMALL PARCEL OF LAND
FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE FREE SCHOOL
AND THUS BECAME THE FIRST PRIVATE BENEFACTOR
OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN BOSTON
* * * * *
ON THE NEIGHBORING SHEAFE STREET LIVED
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH 1808 - 1895
AUTHOR OF "AMERICA"
"My Country 'tis of thee
Sweet Land of Liberty
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride,
From every Mountain Side
Let Freedom Ring."
Plaque 8:Top
JOHN TILESTON
1735 – 1826
ACTIVE PATRIOT DURING THE
REVOLUTION, BELOVED MASTER FOR
MORE THAN SEVENTY YEARS, OF THE NORTH
WRITING SCHOOL, NOW THE ELIOT SCHOOL
AND TEACHER OF MANY FAMOUS BOSTONIANS
HE LIVED AND DIED ON Margaret Street
* * * * *
TO THOSE MEN OF THE NORTH END
WHO DEFENDED WITH THEIR LIVES THE HOPE OF
THEIR COUNTRY IN THE EARLY WARS AGAINST THE
INDIANS AND THE FRENCH
TO THESE LEADERS IN THE REVOLUTION OF 1776
AND THE WAR OF 1812
DANIEL MALCOLM JOSIAH SNELLING JOHN MOUNTFORD
JOHN FOSTER WILLIAMS JAMES SIGOURNEY SAMUEL NEWMAN
JOHN P. BOYD SAMUEL ARMSTRONG JOHN DOWNES
DAVID PORTER,SR. SAMUEL SHAW ROBERT KEITH
* * * DAVID PORTER, JR. * * *
AND TO ALL THE OTHER NORTH ENDERS
WHO STOOD WITH THEM IN
THE CAUSE OF America
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Plaque 9:Top
SAMUEL TUCKER
1747 – 1833
HIGH ON THE ROLL OF THE VALIANT FIGHTING MEN OF THE NAVY, HE CAPTURED
SIXTY-TWO ENEMY VESSELS, MORE THAN SIX HUNDRED CANNON, AND THREE THOUSAND
PRISONERS. A PRIDE TO THE NORTH END, HE LIVED ON FLEET STREET
* * * * *
INCREASE MATHER
1639 – 1723
FATHER OF COTTON MATHER. MINISTER OF THE NORTH CHURCH IN NORTH SQUARE
PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE, 1685-1701. INSTRUMENTAL IN SECURING THE
MASSACHUSETTS ROYAL CHARTER OF 1691. HE LIVED IN NORTH SQUARE AND ON
HANOVER STREET, AND LIES BURIED IN COPP'S HILL BURYING GROUND
* * * * *
EDWARD HOLYOKE
1689 – 1769
PUPIL IN THE NORTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, AND PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE,
1737-1769. LIBERAL IN TEMPER, HIS ADMINISTRATION OF THIRTY-TWO YEARS WAS
ONE OF THE LONGEST AND MOST PROSPEROUS IN THE ANNALS OF THE COLLEGE.
HE WAS BORN IN NORTH SQUARE
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EDWARD EVERETT
1794 – 1865
STATESMAN AND ORATOR, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1836-1840, AND PRESIDENT
OF HARVARD COLLEGE, 1846-1849. HE LIVED AS A BOY ON RICHMOND STREET, AND WAS
A PUPIL OF "OLD JOHN TILESTON"
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CHRISTIAN GULLAGER
1762 – 1826
AMONG THE ARTISTS WHO PAINTED WASHINGTON, HE WAS ACTIVE AS A PORTRAIT
PAINTER DURING THE EARLIER POST-REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD. A SKILLFUL CRAFTSMAN,
HIS WORK RECORDS IN SIMPLE AND HONEST REALISM THE PEOPLE OF HIS DAY. HE
LIVED ON HANOVER STREET
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Plaque 10:Top
JOHN GREENWOOD
1729 – 1792
PAINTER OF PORTRAITS, AND MEZZOTINT ENGRAVER. OF A FAMILY LONG KNOWN
IN THE NORTH END AS BUILDERS OF SHIPS, A NEPHEW OF ISAAC GREENWOOD,
FIRST HOLLIS PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AT
HARVARD COLLEGE. BORN AND LIVED ON SALUTATION AND NORTH STREETS UNTIL
HIS REMOVAL TO ENGLAND IN 1752
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ANN POLLARD
1620 – 1725
ARRIVING AS A CHILD OF TEN WITH THE COMPANY OF JOHN WINTHROP, SHE IS
COUNTED AS THE FIRST WHITE WOMAN TO HAVE STEPPED ON BOSTON SOIL. IN LATER
YEARS SHE DESCRIBED THE PLACE OF LANDING AT THE FOOT OF PRINCE STREET AS
"Very uneven; abounding in small hollows and Swamps,
Covered with blueberries and other bushes"
* * * * *
HARRIOT KEZIAH HUNT
1805 – 1875
DENIED ATTENDANCE AT THE LECTURES OF THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL BECAUSE
OF HER SEX, SHE NEVERTHELESS BECAME ONE OF THE FIRST WOMEN IN BOSTON
TO PRACTICE MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION. SHE WAS BORN AT THE FOOT OF
HANOVER STREET ON THE WATER FRONT. HER DIARY GIVES GLIMPSES OF
THE BEAUTY AND COMFORT OF THE OLD NORTH END HOMES AND GARDENS.
* * * * *
CHARLOTTE SAUNDERS CUSHMAN
1816 – 1876
A GREAT ACTRESS. ON THE SITE OF HER BIRTHPLACE ON PARMENTER STREET,
THE CITY OF BOSTON BUILT A PUBLIC SCHOOL AND NAMED IT IN HER HONOR. SHE
WAS PRESENT AT THE DEDICATION AND SPOKE TO THE PUPILS WITH ADMIRABLE
WISDOM AND ENCOURAGEMENT
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Plaque 11:Top
CHRIST CHURCH
BUILT 1723
THE OLDEST CHURCH BUILDING IN BOSTON
AFTER ITS SPIRE WAS BLOWN DOWN IN A GALE
OCTOBER 1804
THE PRESENT SPIRE, SIXTEEN FEET SHORTER THAN THE ORIGINAL
WAS ERECTED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
CHARLES BULFINCH
ITS PEAL OF BELLS
THE FIRST IN AMERICA
HAS RUNG IN PEACE AND WAR
THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF BOSTON
SINCE 1744
THE FIRST RECTOR WAS
THE REVEREND TIMOTHY CUTLER
RECTOR OF YALE COLLEGE
1719 – 1722
Plaque 12:Top
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
1706 – 1790
PRINTER, SCIENTIST, PHILANTHROPIST,
DIPLOMAT AND STATESMEN
A MAN OF TOWERING EMINENCE
AS PUBLISHER OF POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC
HE PROVIDED AMERICA IN ITS UPBUILDING
WITH A PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
AND ENRICHED ITS COMMON SPEECH
WITH A WEALTH OF PROVERBS
HE BELIEVED THAT REASON AND WORK
ARE THE PATHS TO PROGRESS
HIS HUMOROUS, REALISTIC, FAR-RANGING MIND
THE LIBERALISM OF HIS POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY,
THE MANIFOLD SERVICES HE RENDERED TO HIS FELLOWMEN,
MADE HIM ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICANS
HE LIVED AS A BOY AT THE CORNER OF UNION
AND HANOVER STREETS.
THE HOUSE FORMERLY STANDING IN UNITY STREET
AT THE HEAD OF THIS MALL WAS OWNED BY HIM
AND OCCUPIED BY HIS SISTERS
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Plaque 13:Top
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IN HONOR OF
THE MEN OF THE NORTH END
WHO AT THE CALL OF THEIR COUNTRY
SERVED AS VOLUNTEERS IN
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
1898
* * *
IN HONOR OF
THE MEN OF THE NORTH END
WHOM SERVED THEIR COUNTRY
IN THE
WORLD WAR
1917 – 1918
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