Streets in Massachusetts - Streets in Boston, Massachusetts, Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Washington Street, Fenway, Newbury Street (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Streets in Boston, Massachusetts, Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Washington Street, Fenway, Newbury Street, Park Drive, Storrow Drive, Massachusetts Avenue, Merchants Row, Morrissey Boulevard, Alewife Brook Parkway, Atlantic Avenue, North Street, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Tremont Street, Dorchester Avenue, Bowdoin Street, Boylston Street, Huntington Avenue, Beacon Street, Day Boulevard, Pie Alley, Cornhill, Boston, Federal Street, Hawley Street, Court Street, Congress Street, Fresh Pond Parkway, Charles Street, Milk Street, School Street, State Street, Summer Street, Leyden Street, Hanover Street, Memorial Drive, Brattle Street, Park Street, Boston, Jamaicaway, Franklin Street, Arborway, New Chardon Street, Winter Street, Union Street, West Roxbury Parkway, Stony Brook Reservation Parkways, Old Harbor Reservation Parkways, Neponset Valley Parkway, VFW Parkway, Blue Hills Parkway, Soldiers Field Road, Truman Parkway, Morton Street, Bennington Street, Riverway, Brookline Avenue, Evergreen Street, Yawkey Way, Amity Street, Melnea Cass Boulevard, East Boston Expressway, Newbury Street, Boston. Excerpt: Washington Street is a street originating in downtown Boston, Massachusetts that extends southwestward to the Massachusetts-Rhode Island state line. The majority of it was built as the Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike in the early nineteenth century. It is the longest street in Boston, and it remains one of the longest streets in the state of Massachusetts. Washington Street, as the first street that connected peninsular Boston to the mainland, serves as a divide where a number of cross streets change name. An 1806 map showing Washington Street as the only road off the peninsula. The narrowest point was near today's crossing of the Massachusetts Turnpike.Washington Street begins at Keany Square, the intersection with...