Collection · 6 stops · 3 packs

Wrong Signs

Plaques, signs and official records that have it wrong, or can't agree with each other.

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 City's public map of its fire alarm boxes has a dot in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
   Corner of Milk Street and Oliver Street, east side of Post Office Square
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 plinth says she was hanged on the Common. A judge's diary points a mile south.
   Beacon Street just west of Bowdoin Street, below the State House east wing
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. Banned in Boston
   Groucho Marx, playing here in October 1929, gave Boston's censorship a one-line review: 'Boston's a pain in the neck.'
   265 Tremont Street, north of Seaver Place