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Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Anthony Mitchell Sammarco is a noted historian and author of over sixty books on Boston, its neighborhoods and surrounding cities and towns. He lectures widely on the history and development of his native city.
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East Boston - Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
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Introduction
East Boston is more than just the location of the Logan International Airport, it is a neighborhood that was layd to Boston
in 1636, making it one of the oldest neighborhoods of the city. Once comprised of five separate islands (Noddle, Hog, Governor’s, Bird, and Apple Islands), the area supplied firewood and open land for grazing cattle throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Originally known as Noddle’s Island for William Noddle, an honest man
who was made a freeman in 1631, it is Samuel Maverick who is considered the first resident of East Boston. The son of Reverend John Maverick of Dorchester, Samuel Maverick was granted five hundred acres for the pasturing of his cattle,
and he dispensed great hospitality from his island home. During the American Revolution, the Battle of Chelsea Creek, the first naval battle of the war, took place between the British and the colonists. However, it was not until 1833 that any great changes were to take place on the island.
William Hyslop Sumner had inherited a third of Noddle’s Island through his mother, Elizabeth Hyslop Sumner. His relatives, David Hyslop and David Stoddard, were induced to sell their interest in the island to Sumner and he incorporated the East Boston Company in 1833. The company’s shares were quickly taken, and lands were reclaimed, streets mapped out, and building sites set off and sold.
Maverick and Central Squares were laid out as parks and the Maverick House was built near the ferry landing. To encourage new residents to build homes in East Boston, two ferries, the Maverick and the East Boston, began transporting passengers and freight in 1835, connecting Boston and the new neighborhood. In 1836 the Eastern Railroad Company was established, and its terminus was built near Maverick Square. An even more momentous event occurred in 1839, when the Cunard Line established its United States port in East Boston. From here its ships sailed for Liverpool, England. Throughout the nineteenth century, passengers sailing abroad would often stay at the Maverick House prior to sailing with the Cunard and train lines and enjoy the fine cuisine and accommodations offered in East Boston.
The development of East Boston was to consist of 633 acres of upland and marsh. The East Boston Company began the massive project by filling in marshland and continuing the development of the three wards: Jeffries Point, named in honor of Dr. John Jeffries, whose house was like a bird’s nest
on the southern slope of Webster Street; Eagle Hill, named after bird streets such as Falcon, West and East Eagle, and Condor Streets, also the site of streets named after various poets (including Coleridge, Horace, and Wordsworth) and prominent towns of the American Revolution (such as Princeton, Bennington, Lexington, Saratoga, Eutaw, Monmouth, and Trenton Streets); and Orient Heights, the last area to be developed, named in recognition of the China Trade with the Orient during the nineteenth century that brought such prosperity to Boston.
East Boston’s population had grown tremendously by the time of the Civil War, and numerous manufacturing concerns eventually located along the ample waterfront. With a population of 16,000 in 1860, East Boston contained 1,879 dwellings, eleven churches, ten schoolhouses, twenty-four manufactories and mills, seventy-six warehouses and stores, one hundred and nine mechanics’ shops, several hotels, five fire-engine houses, twelve counting rooms and seventyseven stables.
The population included Irish, Canadian, Russian, Polish, and Italian immigrants. East Boston was a multi-cultural neighborhood of people who came from all walks of life, much like today. With the building of the underwater tunnel between Boston and Maverick Square at the turn of the century, the streetcars that connected all parts of the island could now reach downtown Boston in seven minutes.
Today, East Boston is a thriving nexus of cultures, with new immigrants from South America and the Far