Milk Street

Milk St., Boston, 19th century

Franklin's Birthplace site directly across from Old South Meeting House on Milk Street is commemorated by a bust above the second floor facade of this building

Milk Street is a street in the financial district of Boston, Massachusetts.

Milk Street was one of Boston's earliest highways.^[1] The name "Milk Street" was given to the street in 1708 due to the milk market at the location. One of the first post offices in Boston was located on the street in 1711, when the first regular postal routes to Maine, Plymouth and New York were established.^[1][2]

Grace Croft's 1952 work, titled "History and Genealogy of Milk Family", also proposes that Milk Street may have been named for John Milk, an early shipwright in Boston. The land was originally conveyed to his father, also John Milk, in October 1666.

Old South Meeting House is located at the corner of Milk and Washington. The street is also the home of Benjamin Franklin's birthplace site.^[1]

Subway connection

The closest subway stop to Milk Street is State Street.

See also

• Old South Meeting House, at the corner of Washington St.

Former tenants

• J.L. Cunningham, auctioneer, worked in Corinthian Hall, corner Federal St., 1826-1843
• Benjamin Dearborn, inventor, lived on Milk St.^[3]
• Abram French ran a crockery business on Milk St. in the 19th century
• David Claypoole Johnston, artist, kept a studio on Milk St. in the 19th century
• Julien's Restorator

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Milk Street (Boston, Massachusetts).

Images

• 
  1723 map of Boston, showing Milk St. and vicinity
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  Apothecary, Milk St., c. 1825
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  Overview photo by J.W. Black, showing Milk Street and vicinity, 1860

Further reading

• City of Boston, Landmarks Commission. International Trust Company Building (45 Milk Street) Study Report, 1977

Coordinates: 42°21′26.53″N 71°03′16.45″W / 42.3573694°N 71.0545694°W / 42.3573694; -71.0545694

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