Anthony Mitchell Sammarco has authored more than forty books on the history and development of Boston, and this is his second book on the Back Bay. Sammarco has received numerous awards in recognition of his historical teaching and writing, including the Charles Bulfinch Award from the Doric Dames of the Massachusetts State House and the Washington Medal of Honor from the Freedom Foundation.
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Dorchester
In Dorchester Volume II, local author Anthony Mitchell Sammarco continues his detailed look at this diverse town that he began in Volume I, which the Boston Globe hailed as a best-seller. Founded in …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Downtown Boston
Settled in 1630 by English Puritans seeking religious freedom, Boston has always been a city prone to significant and monumental change. Even before it was incorporated as Boston, named after the tow …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Boston’s Financial District
Boston’s financial district is considered the heart of New England’s banking and finance. It is a veritable overlay of sleek modern office buildings and elegant high-rise structures of the early twen …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Boston’s Back Bay in the Victorian Era
The Back Bay was one of Boston’s premier residential neighborhoods between 1837 and 1901. From its quagmire beginnings and with the creation of the Boston Public Garden in the 1830s, the Back Bay was …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Jamaica Plain
Jamaica Plain: Then & Now is a fascinating photographic history of a Boston neighborhood once referred to as the "Eden of America." At one time a part of Roxbury and later West Roxbury, Jam …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Jamaica Plain
Regardless of how the name came to be, many agree that Jamaica Plain is one of the loveliest areas of New England.Stories abound as to how Jamaica Plain derived its name; some trace it to the flow of …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Charlestown
Images of America: Charlestown explores this historic city’s rich and fascinating history through photographs.Originally settled in 1629, Charlestown became well-known as the scene of the pivotal Rev …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: East Boston
Originally called Noodle, s Island, East Boston was once comprised of five islands connected by marshland. Today, many people identify East Boston as the location of Logan International Airport, but …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Boston’s North End
The streets of Boston, s North End, some laid out in the seventeenth century, exude a rich history that has included every generation of immigrants to Boston since 1630. An active port, the neighborh …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Boston’s South End
Originally a narrow, barren strip of land known as the Neck, Boston’s South End grew from a lonely sentry post and execution grounds to what is today the largest Victorian neighborhood in the United …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Dorchester
The ease of transportation via the Old Colony Railroad revolutionized Dorchester in the period between 1850 and the Civil War and brought a residential building boom that lasted the next seven decade …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Dorchester
Renowned local historian and author Anthony Mitchell Sammarco has brought together more than two hundred compelling images of the town of Dorchester, showing the events, places, and faces that define …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Boston
On March 4, 1822, the townsfolk of Boston voted to incorporate their town as the City of Boston. A great change had just taken place, but even greater changes were to come during the ensuing century, …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Boston’s North End
Since Boston, s settlement in 1630, the North End has developed from a neighborhood of residences and artisan shops. Known for the nationally important Paul Revere House, which is the oldest standing …
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Michael Price & Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Boston’s Immigrants
Boston is a city rich in the history of residents from all walks of life, every country and every ethnicity imaginable. From 1840 to 1925, Boston’s diversity created a city with a thriving nexus of p …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Cambridge
Uncover the history of Cambridge, Massachusetts through vintage images in this pictorial history.Settled as New Towne in 1631, Cambridge was referred to by Wood, a seventeenth-century chronicler, as …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Forest Hills Cemetery
Laid out in 1848 as a rural garden cemetery by Henry A. S. Dearborn, Forest Hills Cemetery celebrates its 160th anniversary in 2008 as Boston’s premier arboretum cemetery. Since the mid-19th century, …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Boston’s West End
Within these pages, author Anthony Mitchell Sammarcobrings to life the history of Boston, s West End, thearea of the city bound by the Charles River and Storrow Drive as well as North Station, City H …
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Frank Cheney & Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: When Boston Rode the EL
The Boston Elevated Railway broke ground in 1899 for a new transit service that opened in 1901, providing a seven-mile elevated railway that connected Dudley Street Station in Roxbury and Sullivan Sq …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Roslindale
Once referred to as the "Suburb Superb, " Roslindale was at one time part of the town of West Roxbury, which had been set off from Roxbury in 1851. The rapid development of Roslindale, whic …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Somerville
Once a part of Charlestown that could only be reached via , The Neck, (present-day Sullivan Square), Somerville became accessible from Boston with the construction of the Middlesex Canal and the exte …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: West Roxbury
West Roxbury, located along the scenic Charles River, is a community of tree-lined streets and panoramic views, which has undergone tremendous changes since its incorporation as a town in 1851. Forme …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: South Boston
South Boston, a peninsular extension of the Massachusetts mainland, was originally dubbed , Great Neck, by the Puritans who settled Dorchester in 1630. After the year 1804, when the town of South Bos …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Medford
Referred to in its beginning as a , peculiar town, , Medford was originally a town but a plantation owned by Governor Matthew Craddock. Known as Meadford at the time of its settlement in 1630, the ar …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: South Boston
South Boston, once a part of Dorchester, was annexed to the city of Boston in 1804. Previously known as a tight-knit community of Polish, Lithuanian, and Irish Americans, South Boston has seen tremen …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Roxbury
Roxbury, annexed to Boston in 1867, has seen tremendous change as a result of land development and a shifting population. Today Roxbury is a , streetcar suburb, of the city and a thriving nexus of cu …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Boston
Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the Massachusetts State House as the , Hub of the Universe., In Boston: A Historic Walking Tour, readers are guided on a series of downtown walking tours that radiate out …
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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco: Milton
Nestled between the Neponset River and the Blue Hills Reservation is the postcard-perfect New England town of Milton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1640, its gentle riverbanks were soon transformed by so …
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