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Excerpt from One Post Office Square: The Best of the Old and the New
In the seventeenth century, the major ity of the area bounded by the present Milk, Pearl, Oliver, and Franklin Streets was owned by two prominent citizens, Eliakim Hutchinson and Peter Oliver, according to Samuel Clough's reconstructed map of Boston in 1676. Hutchinson's property, when shown on John Bonner's 1722 plan of Boston, was the site of three ropewalks, and Oliver's property on the west side of Oliver Street contained a few dwellings and outbuildings (fig. In 1708, the town named Milk Street for old Milk Street in London; and the Street where Mr. Daniel Oliver dwells from Milk Street up to the Fort Hill, was named in honor of selectman Oliver. The eminence of Fort Hill rose above Oliver Street on the northeast, and south battery lay at its foot (fig. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
