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The fire destroyed many businesses in the district including Boston's publishing houses. However, the citizens' spirit and civic pride were revealed, as they quickly rebuilt and implemented reforms in fire and building codes. This 1873 map outlines the burned district, and includes plans for improving streets within that vicinity. Realizing that poorly planned and overcrowded lanes had allowed the fire to spread so easily, the City widened seventeen streets and extended four in the area. Land was cleared to create Post Office Square, new firefighting infrastructure was constructed, and a new downtown rose out of the ashes.
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Document identity
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js956k280
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Plan of burnt district, by fire of Nov. 9th and 10th 1872
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obj
dtoType
map
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1
Source metadata
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js956k280
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Plan of burnt district, by fire of Nov. 9th and 10th 1872
description
The fire destroyed many businesses in the district including Boston's publishing houses. However, the citizens' spirit and civic pride were revealed, as they quickly rebuilt and implemented reforms in fire and building codes. This 1873 map outlines the burned district, and includes plans for improving streets within that vicinity. Realizing that poorly planned and overcrowded lanes had allowed the fire to spread so easily, the City widened seventeen streets and extended four in the area. Land was cleared to create Post Office Square, new firefighting infrastructure was constructed, and a new downtown rose out of the ashes.
date
["1873"]
year
1873
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_004247
creators
Davis, Thomas W., surveyor
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872--Maps
Boston (Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
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pubPlace
Boston
publisher
[s.n.]
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
extent
1 map : col. ; 73 x 52 cm.
notes
Oriented with north toward the upper right.
"Presented by the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company ..."
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no
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js956k280
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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cb6252c01a3decc5