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Description

1. [3],4-33p.; 22cm.

Subject

1. Bridges > Massachusetts > Boston
2. Boston (Mass.) > Bridges
3. South Boston (Mass.) > History
4. Dorchester (Boston, Mass.) > History

Call number

1. *C p.v. 3539

Note

1. Title vignette.
2. Attributed to Tudor by Sabin.
3. The proposed bridge was ultimately constructed in 1826-28 and known as the Boston Free Bridge (or North Free Bridge). Several times reconstructed during the 19th century, it was renamed in 1857 the Federal Street Bridge and later the Dorchester Avenue Bridge.
4. See Toomey and Rankin, History of South Boston (1901) p. 113-119 and 281-282, [I. S. Homans] History of Boston, from 1630 to 1856 (1856) p. 133, and N. B. Shurtleff, Topographical and Historical Description of Boston (1871) p. 425-426.

Author

1. Tudor, William, 1750-1819.

Title

1. Considerations on the public expediency of a bridge from one part of Boston to the other.

Imprint

1. Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring ... Jan. 1806.

LCCN

1. 97110641

Research call number

1. *C p.v. 3539