All Entries in the "North End History" Category
North End History
Welcome to Boston’s North End … where the past meets the present…where history sometimes collides with traffic…where saints, sinners and everything in between have lived and continue to live. To learn more about our neighborhood (that you didn’t find in your school textbooks) take a few moments to read our various {North End History} stories [...]
Viewing the Olde North End
The Boston Public Library’s Digital Services department recently uploaded a series of images of the historic North End from the 1860s to the 1970s to the Boston Public Library’s Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/sets/72157625130840523/. These images include photographs, prints, and drawings documenting Boston’s North End in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the bulk of the [...]
North End History – The Italians
North End History by Guild Nichols PART 5: BOSTON’S LITTLE ITALY 1900-Today The Italian masses that flowed into the North End on the heels of the departing Irish and at the apex of the Jewish settlement found a neighborhood in dire physical condition; a rundown, overcrowded slum of deteriorating tenement buildings. Like their predecessors, these newly-arrived [...]
North End History: Our Jewish Heritage
North End History by Guild Nichols PART 4: OUR JEWISH HERITAGE 1870-1900 The following brief history of the North End’s Jewish heritage is adapted from Michael A. Ross, The Jewish Friendship Trail, 2nd edition, 2003, and is graciously provided with permission by the author. Eastern European Jews began settling in the North End as early [...]
North End History: The Irish Influx
North End History by Guild Nichols PART 3: THE IRISH INFLUX 1840-1870 The Irish have been part of Boston – in small numbers to be sure – from the very outset of the American Revolution. Patrick Carr of Ireland was one of the five men shot by British soldiers on the evening of March 5, 1770 [...]
North End History: From Rags to Riches
North End History by Guild Nichols PART 2: FROM RICHES TO RAGS After 1780, Revere expanded his business interests in keeping with the feverish commercial development along the North End waterfront. He opened a foundry for the smelting of iron and brass and was soon supplying bolts, spikes and nails for the burgeoning shipbuilding industry. [...]
North End History: Boston’s First Neighborhood
PART 1: BOSTON’S FIRST NEIGHBORHOOD – 1640-1780
