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“When the road was first built, a store and school were put up where Beacon Street crossed Harvard Street, the road to Allston and Roxbury. The store (later the site of the S.S. Pierce store) was owned by a man named Coolidge, and the intersection became known as “Coolidge’s Corner.” It had the town pump and hay scales out front. It would become one of the most-traveled parts of Brookline.”
― Brookline, Allston-Brighton and the Renewal of Boston
― Brookline, Allston-Brighton and the Renewal of Boston
“Once known as “Muddy River” when it was a small hamlet on the outskirts of Boston, Brookline was eventually named for the brooks that formed the lines of its northern and southern borders. Hence, “Brookline” was incorporated in 1705.”
― Brookline, Allston-Brighton and the Renewal of Boston
― Brookline, Allston-Brighton and the Renewal of Boston
“The fire was stopped at State Street by a brigade of firefighters with pumps, saving the Old State House for posterity. Also saved by extraordinary effort was the Old South Meetinghouse at Milk and Washington. Credit is given to a crew from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, who arrived by train with their steam engine, Kearsage No. 3, that had been loaded on a flatbed railroad car and hauled by train to Boston.”
― Brookline, Allston-Brighton and the Renewal of Boston
― Brookline, Allston-Brighton and the Renewal of Boston
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