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Boston’s Fire Trail A Walk Through the City’s Fire and Firefighting History SCov
Bostons Fire Trail A Walk Through the Citys Fire and Firefighting History from Boston Fire Historical Society
Soft Cover
126 pages
Copyright 2017
CONTENTS
FOREWORD: BOSTON'S FIRE HISTORY TRAIL7
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK11
Map 1. Charlestown/North End13
1. The Burning of Charlestown
2. Rutherford Avenue Conflagration
3. Potato Sheds Fire
4. Brink's Garage
5. The Molasses Disaster
6. Union Wharf Fire
7. North End Firehouses
8. The Paul Revere House
9. Merrimac Street Fire
Map 2. South End31
1. The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire
2. Chemical 2 Quarters
3. Pope Bicycle Building Fire
4. Roosevelt Hotel Fire
5. Briggs Place Fire
6. Arcadia Lodging House
7. Historic Boston Fire Headquarters, 1895-1951
8. Engine 22 Historic Firehouse
9. The Trumbull Street Fire
Map 3 Back Bay/Fenway53
1. Arlington Street Fire
2. Statue of William Ellery Channing
3. First Church Fire
4. The Vendome Fire
5. Two Fires: Copley Plaza Hotel Fire and Sheraton Boston Hotel Fire
6. Red Coach Grill Fire
7. Prudential Center
8. Lenox Hotel Fire
9. Sherry Biltmore Hotel Fire
10. Boston Fire Alarm Headquarters
11. The Peterborough Street Fire
12. Fenway Park Fire
Map 4 Downtown Crossing/Financial District7 7
1. The Old State House Museum
2. Old City Hall
3. Old South Meeting House
4. C. Crawford Hollidge Fire
5. The Great Boston Fire of 1872
6. Fire Alarm Box 52
7. Thanksgiving Day Fire
8. Paramount Hotel Fire
9. Chinatown Fire
10. Pickwick Club Collapse
11. Former Engine Company 7 Quarters
12. Sleeper Street Fire
13. Congress Street Fire Station
14. Blinstrub's Nightclub Fire
Off the Map Other Boston Areas109
1. Firefighter Memorial
2. Luongo Restaurant Fire
3. Roxbury Conflagration
4. Plant Shoe Factory Fire
5. Bellflower Street Conflagration
About This Book123
About the Authors125
ON THE BACK COVER
Even before the Great Fire of 1872, which destroyed almost eight hundred buildings in the heart of downtown, fire has irrevocably altered the city of Boston's appearance, fortunes and psyche.
In Boston's Fire Trail, members of the Boston Fire Historical Society trace the history of fire in the Hub and create an intriguing retrospective of this compelling facet of the city's past. Daring rescues, conflagrations, arson, accidents and human courageall are here, along with historic details of the circumstances and locations of more than twenty-five fires and sites significant to the history of Boston's fire department.
Follow the fire trail with one of the most renowned firefighting forces in the nation.
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