Collection · 10 stops · 4 packs

Legends Busted

The story everybody tells, then what the record says. The record usually wins.

1. The 1852 Hunt
   The officer who opened Box 52 for the Great Fire had his own key. The alarm was still a quarter hour late.
   Corner of Summer Street and Lincoln Street
2. The 1852 Hunt
   The Great Fire was stopped at Washington and Milk, a short distance from Old South's door.
   Corner of Milk Street and Hawley Street
3. Bad Ends
   The 1851 record puts the bullet holes on a different grave.
   Inside Copp's Hill Burying Ground; enter from Hull Street. City marker places the stone at D-86.
4. Bad Ends
   The stone people call Hester Prynne's may belong to a woman the court found 'greatly negligent' in her child's death.
   Tremont Street at School Street, next to King's Chapel (58 Tremont St)
5. Bad Ends
   The best old source on the 'hanging tree' is a surgeon's pamphlet, and he meant hanging in effigy.
   On the Common, uphill from Frog Pond, toward Tremont and West Streets
6. Bad Ends
   The surgeon from the ether operation left Harvard his museum and his skeleton. The star exhibit is a skull with a hole in it.
   10 Shattuck Street, Boston (public entrance 695 Huntington Avenue)
7. Banned in Boston
   H.L. Mencken came to this corner in 1926 to sell one magazine to the one man in Boston who wanted to arrest him.
   Corner of Park Street and Tremont Street
8. Banned in Boston
   The Old Howard began as a church for people expecting the end of the world, and ended in 1953 when the vice squad brought a film camera.
   Court Street at Tremont Street, Government Center (near 1 Cambridge St)
9. Banned in Boston
   When Scollay Square was razed, its trade moved here, and in November 1974 Boston made it official.
   2 Boylston Street at Washington Street
10. Shot Here
    Cheers' bar was a set on Paramount Stage 25. Only the outside is Boston.
    84 Beacon Street, at Brimmer Street, across from the Public Garden