Proceeding down State Street to Number 30, we come to the site of
The Boston Massacre
A tablet on the wall tells the story. A circle in the pavement marks the place where fell the first martyrs in the cause of American freedom. Continuing down State Street, we come to the
Custom House
For the minute, let us forget historic Boston and take a rapid trip in the elevator to the tower 490 feet high where we may obtain a wonderful panorama of the city and take a splendid aerial photograph on a clear day.
Leaving the building, we turn right on Milk Street and proceed to Oliver Street. Turn left on Oliver and follow to Atlantic Avenue where you then turn right to Pearl Street. Here on a building is a marker to the
Boston Tea Party
The marker reads “Here formerly stood Griffin’s Wharf at which lay moored December 16, 1773, three British ships with cargoes of tea. To defeat King George’s trivial but tyrannical tax of three pence per pound, about ninety citizens of Boston, partly disguised as Indians, boarded the ships, threw the cargoes, three hundred and forty-two chests in all, into the sea and made the world ring with the patriotic exploit of The Boston Tea Party.”
Leaving this most historic point, we retrace our steps back over Atlantic Avenue for some distance to Market Street. There we turn left and proceed along until we come to the Quincy Market where we turn right and then left to North Market Street where we find