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THEIR ASSIGNMENT: WRINGING HISTORY FROM BOSTON'S NECK

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20030727
Author:Martin Matishak, Globe Correspondent

There was the mint near Rollins Street where the Massachusetts Bay Colony produced its own half-cent and cent before a national currency was introduced.

There was the South Congregational Church where legendary writer Edward Everett Hale preached before it was converted into a Moorish movie theater.

And there was the booming piano manufacturing industry, with multiple factories, many separated by only a few city blocks.

This fall Washington Gateway Main Street, a local development organization, and the MBTA will tell the story of Washington Street through a series of historic markers so that ...

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