Off the Bricks

The 1852 Hunt · STOP 10 · Financial District

The City's public map of its fire alarm boxes has a dot in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

The City of Boston publishes a map of its fire alarm boxes, and one of them is plotted in the town of Lincoln, about fourteen miles away. It was never a street box. Three others on the map, the fire department says, have been removed. Walkers check the list against the real boxes one corner at a time, and this corner is one of them.

This is stop 10 of The 1852 Hunt. Walk it free in the app.

The plate

The List Is Wrong

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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Corner of Milk Street and Oliver Street, east side of Post Office Square
Directions

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Street boxes are only half of it. The IEEE counts over 1,000 master boxes inside public and private buildings, wired into the same system.

More footnotes on the story card, in the app.

Fire alarm box, Wrong sign, Works after dark

In these collections: Wrong Signs, After Dark

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