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1. ONORTH_190810_010.JPG: Cyrus Edwin Dallin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cyrus Edwin Dallin (November 22, 1861 – November 14, 1944) was an American sculptor best known for his depictions of Native Americans. He created more than 260 works, including the equestrian statue of Paul Revere in Boston, Massachusetts; the Angel Moroni atop Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah; and his most famous work, Appeal to the Great Spirit, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was also an Olympic archer.
2. ONORTH_190810_021.JPG: Patrolman Andrew B. Cuneo 1877-1921 1st Italian Boston Police Officer Killed in the Line of Duty
3. ONORTH_190810_050.JPG: NEMPAC North End Music & Performing Arts Center
4. ONORTH_190810_053.JPG: To those men of the North End who defended with their lives the integrity of the Union in the American Civil War 1861 - 1865 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 North 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.
5. ONORTH_190810_056.JPG: 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.
6. ONORTH_190810_060.JPG: 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.
7. ONORTH_190810_063.JPG: John Winthrop 1588 - 1649 In the early autumn of 1630, Winthrop and his company landed at the foot of Prince Street from Charleston. 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 Susanna, 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. 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 Shaefe Street. Point Judith, part of his land in Rhode Island was named by him for his wife, Judith Quincy.
8. ONORTH_190810_068.JPG: 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 the 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.
9. ONORTH_190810_071.JPG: Paul Revere William Dawes
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11. ONORTH_190810_077.JPG: 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.
12. ONORTH_190810_079.JPG: Samuel Tucker 1747 - 1833 High on the roll of the valiant fighting men of the Old 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. 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" Christian Gullager 1862 - 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.
13. ONORTH_190810_082.JPG: 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 1792. Ann Pollard 1620 - 1725 Arriving as a child of ten with the company of John Winthrop, she is counted 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 gibes glimpses of 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.
14. ONORTH_190810_084.JPG: 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 peach and war throughout the history of Boston since 1744 The first rector was the Reverend Timothy Cutler Rector of Yale College 1719 - 1722
15. ONORTH_190810_087.JPG: Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 Printer, Scientist, Philanthropist, Diplomat and Statesman 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 ar 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.
16. ONORTH_190810_090.JPG: 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 who served their country in the World War 1917 - 1918
17. ONORTH_190810_127.JPG: Demoing Ben Franklin's armonica Glass harmonica From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from ἁρμονία, harmonia, the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones). ... Franklin's armonica Benjamin Franklin invented a radically new arrangement of the glasses in 1761 after seeing water-filled wine glasses played by Edmund Delaval at Cambridge in England in May 1761. Franklin worked with London glassblower Charles James to build one, and it had its world premiere in early 1762, played by Marianne Davies. Writing to his friend Giambatista Beccaria in Turin, Italy, Franklin wrote from London in 1762 about his musical instrument: "The advantages of this instrument are, that its tones are incomparably sweet beyond those of any other; that they may be swelled and softened at pleasure by stronger or weaker pressures of the finger, and continued to any length; and that the instrument, being well tuned, never again wants tuning. In honour of your musical language, I have borrowed from it the name of this instrument, calling it the Armonica." In Franklin's treadle-operated version, 37 bowls were mounted horizontally on an iron spindle. The whole spindle turned by means of a foot pedal. The sound was produced by touching the rims of the bowls with water-moistened fingers. Rims were painted different colors according to the pitch of the note: A (dark blue), B (purple), C (red), D (orange), E (yellow), F (green), G (blue), and accidentals were marked in white. With the Franklin design, it is possible to play ten glasses simultaneously if desired, a technique that is very difficult if not impossible to execute using upright goblets. Franklin also advocated the use of a small amount of powdered chalk on the fingers, which under some acidic water conditions helped produce a clear tone. Some attempted improvements on the armonica included adding keyboards, placing pads between the bowls to reduce sympathetic vibrations, and using violin bows. Another supposed improvement claimed in ill-informed post-period observations of non-playing instruments was to have the glasses rotate into a trough of water. However, William Zeitler put this idea to the test by rotating an armonica cup into a basin of water; the water has the same effect as putting water in a wine glass – it changes the pitch. With several dozen glasses, each a different diameter and thus rotating with a different depth, the result would be musical cacophony. This modification also made it much harder to make the glass "speak", and muffled the sound. In 1975, an original armonica was acquired by the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis and put on display, albeit without its original glass bowls (they were destroyed during shipment). It was purchased through a musical instrument dealer in France, from the descendants of Mme. Brillon de Jouy, a neighbor of Benjamin Franklin's from 1777 to 1785, when he lived in the Paris suburb of Passy. Some 18th- and 19th-century specimens of the armonica have survived into the 21st century. Franz Mesmer also played the armonica and used it as an integral part of his Mesmerism. An original Franklin armonica is in the archives at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, having been donated in 1956 by Franklin's descendants after "the children took great delight in breaking the bowls with spoons" during family gatherings. It is only placed on display for special occasions, such as Franklin's birthday. The Franklin Institute is also the home of the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial.
18. ONORTH_190810_139.JPG: Clough House This graceful home was built around 1712 and managed to survive when all its neighbors--including the house that Ben Franklin owned next door--were torn down. This was the home of one of Boston's "substantial mechanicks," Ebenezer Clough, the master mason who helped build Christ Church ("Old North"). Once, before the present-day promenade and newer buildings were here,many small brick houses like this one made up the prosperous neighborhood.
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20. ONORTH_190810_164.JPG: Iraq-Afghanistan Memorial A dog tag hangs in honor of each U.S. service member who sacrificed their life in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. May all who lost their lives rest in peace.
21. ONORTH_190810_173.JPG: Behind these doors 1,100 bodies are buried.
22. ONORTH_190810_175.JPG: 18th Century Garden
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24. ONORTH_190810_205.JPG: The signal lanterns of Paul Revere displayed in the steeple of this church April 18, 1775 warned the country of the march of the British troops to Lexington and Concord. Placed by the city of Boston 1924
25. ONORTH_190810_230.JPG: The signal lanterns of Paul Revere displayed in the steeple of this church April 17, 1775 warned the country of the march of the British troops to Lexington and Concord.
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Wikipedia Description: Old North Church
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Old North Church (officially, Christ Church in the City of Boston), at 193 Salem Street, in the North End of Boston, is the location from which the famous "One if by land, and two if by sea" signal is said to have been sent. This phrase is related to Paul Revere's midnight ride, of April 18, 1775, which preceded the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution.

The church is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. It is the oldest active church building in Boston and is a National Historic Landmark. Inside the church is a bust of George Washington, which the Marquis de Lafayette reportedly remarked was the best likeness of him he had ever seen.

Old North Church was built in 1723, and was inspired by the works of Christopher Wren, the British architect who was responsible for rebuilding London after the Great Fire.

The lanterns:

On April 18, 1775, probably a little after 10 P.M., the 191 ft (58 m) steeple of the Church served a military purpose.

Paul Revere told three Boston patriots to hang two lanterns in the steeple. These men were the church sexton Robert John Newman, and Captain John Pulling, the two of whom David Hackett Fischer suggests each carried one lantern up to the steeple, and Thomas Bernard, who stood watch for British troops outside the church. The lanterns were displayed to send a warning to Charlestown patriots across the Charles River about the movements of the British Army. Revere and William Dawes would later deliver the same message to Lexington themselves, but this lantern method was a fast way to inform the back-up riders in Charlestown about the movements of the British; these back-up riders planned to deliver the warning message to Lexington and Concord in case Revere and Dawes were arrested on the way.

The lanterns were hung for just under a minute to avoid catching the eyes of the British troops occupying Boston, but this was long en ...More...
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