Bowdoin Square (Boston)
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Bowdoin Square in Boston, Massachusetts was located in the West End. In the 18th and 19th centuries it featured residential houses, leafy trees, a church, hotel, theatre and other buildings. Among the
Daniel Webster, 1850 ("A great crowd had collected ... and on his appearance in a barouche, he was enthusiastically cheered."
Bowdoin Square Baptist Church, built 1840
Railroad Jubilee, 1854
U.S. Court House, Bowdoin Square, c. 1856; engraving by Samuel Smith Kilburn, Ballou's Pictorial
Kirk Boott
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Kirk Boott was an American industrialist who was instrumental in the early history of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Kirk Boott
The Boott Mill complex now converted to a museum.