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pickers tenement" (c. 1711). "In 1711, Oct. 2, a fire commenced in Williams' Court in an oakum pickers tenement, where the woman suffered the fire 'to catch the oakum she was employed in picking of;' all the houses and stores on both sides of Washington St. between School St. and
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Roberts. History of the Military company of the Massachusetts, now called the Ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts. 1637-1888, Volume 2. Boston: A. Mudge & son, printers, 1897; p.333-334
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which newspaper composing rooms dumped into the alley in the past, or after the local restaurants that sold coffee and a piece of pie for a nickel. It is also known as
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Boston Street Laying-Out Dept. A record of the streets, alleys, places, etc. in the city of Boston]. Boston: City Printing Dept., 1910.
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Edward Hartwell Savage. Boston events: Boston for 250 years, from Blackstone to O'Brien. Boston: Mutual News Co., 1886.
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Edward Hartwell Savage. Boston events: Boston for 250 years, from Blackstone to O'Brien. Boston: Mutual News Co., 1886.
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Warning on Pi Alley; Boston Byway Posted as Private but Traffic Goes On. New York Times, January 11, 1922.
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Bostonian Society. Old Boston in early photographs, 1850-1918. Dover Publications, 1990; p.16.
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Sewall, quoted in: "Early Reminiscences." City Record and Boston News-Letter, Jan. 21, 1826
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Entrance to Pi Alley "through the arch at 103 Washington Street," Boston, 19th century
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Detail of 1743 map of Boston, showing Savage's Court
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Pie Alley (Boston)

Pi Alley is located in Boston
42°21′29.67″N 71°3′32.37″W / 42.3582417°N 71.0589917°W / 42.3582417; -71.0589917
Boston
Massachusetts
Washington Street
Old City Hall
School Street
pied type
Bell-in-Hand
Boston Herald
Boston police
cordwainer
wheelwright
Munroe & Francis
Oakum
Dock Square
Samuel Sewall
Detail of 1743 map of Boston, showing Savage's Court
Drugs and medicines, 1774
Bell-in-Hand, established 1795
Boston Herald, Williams Court, 19th century
Entrance to Pi Alley "through the arch at 103 Washington Street," Boston, 19th century
Entrance to Pi Alley, behind Old City Hall, 2010
Massachusetts portal
United States portal
Newspaper Row (Boston)
"Street Book - City of Boston"
Caledonian

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