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Kneeland Street. From Marginal Road, south to
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Roxbury Parkway (at Lagrange Street). It was taken over by the Massachusetts Department of Public Works in 1908. The short piece in West Roxbury Parkway, to just north of the road through the parkway, was taken over in 1921; the next state highway in Boston was the Southern Artery in 1926.
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in the early 19th century. It is the longest street in Boston and remains one of the longest streets in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Due to various municipal annexations with the city of Boston, the name Washington Street now exists 6 or more times within the jurisdiction(s) of the City of
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and bypassed towns where travelers wanted to stop, saw little use and remained a dirt road until the construction of US 1. The part of the turnpike within the
Roxbury limits was laid out as a public road in June 1857 and named Shawmut Avenue, as an extension of the existing Shawmut Avenue from
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Foxborough was finished, and it was around this time that the rest of the current alignment to Rhode Island was finished — using Washington Street from Foxborough to the state line, except through North Attleborough center. The old road became
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was cut to make the town more defensible. To this end fortifications south of Boston were built to control the Post Road, both on the mainland and just beyond the man-made canal cutting through Boston Neck at what is now
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neighborhood, Washington Street extends approximately 2.8 miles (4.5 km) from Blue Hill Avenue near Geneva Avenue to
Dorchester Avenue at the southern boundary of the city (ZIP Codes: 02121 and 02124)
786:(January 18, 1890), and Hampden Street (May 10, 1890) were electrified, they initially used Shawmut Avenue to reach Tremont Street. On September 2, 1890, the line on Washington Street to
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Washington extends from the Haymarket neighborhood and proceeds northward where it crosses the Charles River and terminates in Charlestown at the junction with Chelsea Street.
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neighborhood, Washington Street begins at a dead end near the intersection of Austin Street and New
Rutherford Avenue and extends three blocks to Harvard Street (ZIP Code: 02129)
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center (which it bypasses using East
Washington Street as opposed to North and South Washington Streets), US Route 1 stays with Washington, as it passes through the outskirts of
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A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc. in the City of Boston
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McIntyre, Henry; Friend & Aub; Wagner & M'Guigan (1852).
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1513:(Report). Vol. 40. City of Boston Archives. p. 4.
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1722:. November 28, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
1622:. December 25, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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1672:. May 8, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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Map of the city of Boston and immediate neighborhood
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1920:Template:Attached KML/Washington Street (Boston)
791:Street tracks and allowed increases in service.
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1829:Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district
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211:. Starting in 1631 the narrowest waist of that
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955:Disbrow's Riding School, Washington St., 1850s
830:route, bustituted September 13, 1953, and the
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1138:Stereoscopic image by the Bierstadt Brothers
1824:Washington Street: The Mystery is Solved(?)
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1819:Washington Street, The Longest In Boston
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491:Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority
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1863:"East side of Washington Street"
1847:"West side of Washington Street"
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1887:. Boston: Macullar Parker Co.
1583:Hanson, Robert Brand (1976).
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694:and Brook Farm Parkway) from
1463:"Tracing Washington's steps"
1319:Haytian Bureau of Emigration
1316:, photographer, 19th century
1271:, photographer, 19th century
1078:Washington St., 19th century
376:Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike
169:Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike
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2191:Jersey Street (Yawkey Way)
1935:Washington Street (Boston)
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1541:state highway layout plan
1526:state highway layout plan
1435:King, Jason (2017-12-13).
1396:photo studio, 19th century
1388:White, Smith & Company
1370:movie theater (1928–1960s)
1323:Keith-Albee Boston Theatre
839:Washington Street Elevated
739:from south of downtown to
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692:Boston-Providence Turnpike
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847:Washington Street Tunnel
735:routes. It also had the
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1971:Streets and squares in
1206:Old South Meeting House
776:West End Street Railway
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386:Great and General Court
350:North Washington Street
1716:"Goodby Old Horse Car"
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2037:Melnea Cass Boulevard
1873:. Boston, Mass. 1853.
1857:. Boston, Mass. 1853.
1784:. Boston, Mass. 1853.
1641:"West End Time Table"
967:Franklin School, 1851
820:1925, yet another map
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2196:Massachusetts Avenue
1937:at Wikimedia Commons
1924:KML is from Wikidata
1437:"Boston's Made Land"
1368:RKO-Keith's Memorial
1341:Lafayette Place Mall
1298:Globe Theatre (1903)
1293:Globe Theatre (1871)
1259:Boston Female Asylum
1201:Old Corner Bookstore
853:several days later.
841:, later part of the
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233:East Berkeley Street
2236:Turtle Pond Parkway
2201:Morrissey Boulevard
2112:North–south streets
2067:Soldiers Field Road
1997:Commonwealth Avenue
1867:Gleason's Pictorial
1851:Gleason's Pictorial
1804:. pp. 485–486.
1666:"New Electric Line"
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2256:West Boundary Road
2129:Blue Hills Parkway
2052:New Chardon Street
2027:Gallivan Boulevard
1778:Gleasons Pictorial
1561:(November 3, 1926)
1545:(November 1, 1921)
1400:White Horse Tavern
1287:Fetridge & Co.
1039:After fire of 1872
931:Liberty Tree, 1774
903:(ZIP Code: 02136).
851:Southwest Corridor
816:North Attleborough
769:Charlestown Bridge
665:North Attleborough
600:North Attleborough
530:MBTA Commuter Rail
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2289:Blackstone Square
2251:Washington Street
2161:Dorchester Avenue
2032:Huntington Avenue
1980:East–west streets
1933:Media related to
1309:Grand Opera House
1191:Downtown Crossing
1003:Hewes house, 1860
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474:Downtown Crossing
339:Government Center
240:George Washington
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2384:Louisburg Square
2364:Haymarket Square
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2146:Brookline Avenue
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1871:4
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1782:5
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1449:.
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528:/
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