Near the T · 8 stops · 4 packs

Near North Station

Stops from the walks within about 600 m of North Station station, closest first.

1. Under Boston
   The Sky Over Causeway Street Used to Be Steel
   2 MIN · 106 M
2. Bad Ends
   On August 30, 1850, Boston hanged a Harvard chemistry professor about here.
   3 MIN · 166 M
3. The 1852 Hunt
   Boston's first fire alarm came from this street in 1852, and so did the one that mattered when 911 went down in 2018.
   5 MIN · 353 M
4. Shot Here
   The Departed's police headquarters was built for the state's employment office.
   6 MIN · 427 M
5. Bad Ends
   The 1851 record puts the bullet holes on a different grave.
   6 MIN · 440 M
6. Bad Ends
   In 1721 someone threw a lit grenade into Cotton Mather's house over smallpox inoculation. His diary kept the note.
   7 MIN · 482 M
7. Bad Ends
   The company painted the molasses tank brown, the city's archivists say, so the leaks wouldn't show.
   7 MIN · 558 M
8. Bad Ends
   The ether room's longest tenant is an Egyptian mummy. His head was once put back on with a broom handle.
   8 MIN · 590 M

Minutes are the straight-line distance at 80 m a minute. The walk on the street is longer.