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interest the building of this station, and have noted with a great deal of pride that this, the finest and largest in the world, has been erected by the foremost city of New England, and now, with increased interest and pride do I thank you, and beg that you will convey my thanks and appreciation to the members of both branches of the council for the honor with which they have so courteously favored me.
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Dear Sir: — I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of October 10. informing me that you had introduced, and had passed through both branches of the Boston city government, an order naming the area in front of Boston's new Union Station, "Dewey Square." I have watched with much
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and others was located just north of Dewey Square over the Central Artery. This temporary bus station replaced an earlier Trailways bus station that had been located in Park Square. All intercity buses were relocated in 1993 to the nearby
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The life and letters of Admiral Dewey: from Montpelier to Manila containing reproductions in fac-simile of hitherto unpublished letters of George Dewey during the Admiral's naval career and extracts from his
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in the late 1990s and early 2000s kept the one-way configurations north of the square, but now Atlantic Avenue continues as one-way (northbound) south of the square, and Surface Artery is one-way southbound.
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The next major change came in the 1950s when the Central Artery was built. The whole area on the north and south sides of the square was cleared, and the Artery was built underground via the
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United States Cruiser Olympia. Manila, Philippine Islands, November 22. 1898. Mr. W. W. Hubbard:
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From September 30 to December 10, 2011, Dewey Square was the site of the
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The area is now largely an open plaza at the southern end of the
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Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy article on Dewey Square park
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just south of South Station, situated above the train tracks.
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Dewey Square (Boston)


square
downtown
Boston, Massachusetts
Atlantic Avenue
Summer Street
Federal Street
Purchase Street
Central Artery
I-93
Dewey Square Tunnel
Big Dig
South Station
Amtrak
MBTA Commuter Rail
Red Line
subway
Silver Line
bus rapid transit
underneath
Admiral of the Navy
George Dewey
George Dewey
Battle of Manila Bay
Fort Point Channel
Union Freight Railroad
Boston Elevated Railway
streetcar

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