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1856 Lynn City Directory Preface; Streets, Courts, Etc.; Halls, Buildings, Etc.; Wharves; Abbreviations

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PREFACE

     The Citizens of Lynn are now presented with the fifth number of the Directory, thoroughly revised and corrected.
     To the usual variety of information, we have added this year a complete Directory of Swampscott, and a Business Directory of Saugus.
     Our thanks are due to all who have assisted us in preparing the work, and also to the business people for their liberal patronage.

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

     The seventeenth Presidential term of four years began on the 4th of March, 1853, and will expire on the 3d of March, 1857.
     The salary of the President is $25, 000 a year, and the salary of the Vice President and members of the Cabinet is $8000 each.

FRANKLIN PIERCE, New Hampshire, President.
--  --, Vice-President.

THE CABINET.

WILLIAM L. MARCY, New York, Secretary of State.
JAMES GUTHRIE, Kentucky, Secretary of the Treasury.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, Mississippi, Secretary of War.
JAMES C. DOBBIN, North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy.
ROBERT M’CLELLAND, Michigan, Sec’y of the Interior.
JAMES CAMPBELL, Pennsylvania, Postmaster-General
CALEB CUSHING, Massachusetts, Attorney-General.

     CONGRESS - The SENATE is composed of two members elected by the Legislature of each State for the term of six years. Of course the number of Senators is now Sixty-two. The Vice-President of the United States is President of the Senate. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate.
     THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is composed of representatives from each in the ratio of one to every 70,680 of the population. The present number of members is two hundred and thirty-four; and there are seven delegates, one each from Oregon, Minnesota, Utah, New Mexico, Washington, Nebraska and Kansas teritories, who have a right to speak, but not to vote. The compensation of the members is $8, and that of the Speaker $16 per day during the session, and $8 for every-twenty miles’ travel in going and returning.
     Presidential election, in each state in the Union, 1st Tuesday in November.

Presidents of the United States since the adoption of the Constitution.

*Died in office, and succeded by the Vice Pres

POPULATION OF UNITED STATES

     In all the States, except South Carolina, the Governor is voted for by the people; and if no one has a majority of all the votes, In the States in the States in which such a majority is required, the Legislature elects to the office of Governor one of the candidates voted for by the people.

RATES OF POSTAGE.

In the United States, or to British North American Provinces.

     LETTERS in the United States, per ½ oz., (fractions same,) not over 3000 miles, 3 c. prepaid; over 3000 miles, 10 c. prepaid. Drop-letters, 1 c., prepaid or not. Advertised letters, 1 c. extra. To or from the Provinces, not over 3000 miles from the line, 10 c. per ½ oz., over 3000, 15 c., prepaid or not.
     TRANSIENT NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, UNSEALED CIRCULARS, OR OTHER ARTICLES OF PRINTED MATTER, not exceeding 3 ounces in weight, to any part of the United States, prepaid 1 c., not prepaid 2 c.; each additional ounce or fraction of an ounce, prepaid 1 c., not prepaid, 2 c.
     REGULAR NEWEPAPERS OR PERIODICALS, paid yearly or quarterly in advance, when circulated in the State where published, not weighing over 1 ½ oz., ¼ c.; over 1 ½ oz. and not over 3 oz., ½ c; every additional oz. or fraction, ½ c. When circulated out of the State, all weighing 3 oz. or less, ½ c., and each additional oz. or fraction, ½ c.
     WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS within the county where printed and published, single copy free to each subscriber. Small newspapers and periodicals, monthly or oftener, and pamphlets not containing more than sixteen octave pages, in single packages of not less than 8 oz. to one address, prepaid by stamp, ½ c. for each ounce; fraction same.
     BOOKS, bound or unbound, not weighing over four pounds, under 300 miles, 1 c. per oz. prepaid, 1 ½ c. not prepaid; over 3000 miles, 2 c. prepaid, 3 c. not prepaid.
     PUBLISHERS OF NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS are allowed a free exchange of one copy, and may also send to each actual subscriber, enclosed in their publications, bills and receipts for the same, free of postage,.
     ALL PRINTED MATTER must be sent without cover, or in a cover open at the ends or sides. There must be no word or communication printed on the same after its publication, or upon the cover, except the name and address of the person to whom it is to be sent. There must be no paper or other thing enclosed in or with such printed paper.

               TO OR FROM GREAT BRITAIN OR IRELAND.
     LETTERS. - Each ½ oz. 24 c.; 5 c. extra for California or Oregon. Pre-payment optional.
     NEWSPAPERS. - 2 c. each, payment in United States.
     PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS. - Not over two oz., 2 c. each, and 4 c. each extra oz., payable in United, States; and same postage is payable in the United Kingdom, excepting that for the third oz. it rises to sixpence, and each extra oz. is twopence.

STREETS, COURTS, ETC.

Adams street, east side of Rockaway
Almont street, from Union, near Sagamore House
Amity, from Beach to Newhall
Ash street, from South street to Elm
Ashland street, from Summer street to Boston
Atlantic street, from Broad street to Ocean
Auburn street, from Lynnfleld street to Bacheller
Bacheller street, from Boston street to Lynnfield
Baker street, from 8O North Common to Franklin

Baltimore street, fron Nahant street to Atlantic
Bassett street, from Lewis street to Ocean
Beach street, from 85 Broad street to Long beach
Beach road, lengthwise on Long beach
Bedford, from Shepard street to Blossom
Blossom, from 49 South Common to the water
Bond street, from Pleasant street to Church
Boston street, from Saugus river old bridge to Salem line
Breed’s end, crossing of Turnpike and Summer
Breed’s square, between Turnpike and Summer
Breed street, from Lewis street to Ocean street
Breed’s ,court, from 40 Broad street
Bridge street, from Boston street to Waterhill
Broad street, from Market street to Chestnut
Brook vale, Boston street, from Myrtle street to Chestnut
Brook square, crossing of Franklin street and Boston
Bryant street, west side of Franklin

Buffum’s court, west side of Pearl street
Burchstead court, from 127 Union
Cambridge street, from Liberty street
Carnes street, from Boston street to Winter
Cedar lake north side of Lynnfield street
Cedar street, from Boston street to Salem

Central square, junction of Union street and Exchange
Centre street, from North Common Street to Waterhill
Chancery court, from Sachem
Chase street, from Baker street to Hanover
Chatham street, from 70 Lewis street to Marianna
Chestnut street, from Broad street to Boston
Chippewa court, north side of Lewis
Church street, from South Common street to Summer
City square, junction of Essex, Liberty and High
Collins street, from Chestnut street to Chatham
Common, from Market Street to Federal
Commercial street, from 106 S. Common street to W. Lynn Depot
Congress street, from 334 Turnpike to Boston
Cottage, from Turnpike street to Boston
Crosby street from 51 Shepard to Blossom
Curve street from Neptune street to Commercial
Dungeon avenue, north side of Walnut
Dungeon rock, in the forest north of Walnut
East Charles street,, from Chestnut street to Howard
Elizabeth street, from Linden street, to Cottage
Ellis street, from Silsbee street to School
Elm street, from South Common street to Neptune
Essex street, fr. east end of the Common to the Swampscott line
Essex court, north side of Essex street, near Pearl
Estes street, from Broad street to Howard
Exchange Street, from Central depot to Broad
Farrington’s court, west side of Atlantic street
Fayette Street, from Lewis street to Collins street
Fayette court, from 103 Fayette Street
Fayette place, from Chestnut street
Fayette square, between Fayette street and Chestnut
Federal street, from west end of Common to Walnut st.
Federal square, junction of Federal Street and Waterhill
Floating bridge, on Turnpike, across Glenmere
Forest place, north end of Franklin street
Forest rock, in Pine Grove Cemetery
Forest street, from Franklin Street to Lover’s leap
Foster street, from Nichols street to Ocean
Franklin avenue, from N. Common street to Franklin
Franklin court, west side of Franklin Street
Franklin place, between Chestnut street and Fayette
Franklin street, from N. Common street to Forest
Gardiner street, from Boston street to Holyoke
Garland street, from Bassett street to Red rock
George street, from Summer street to Warren
Glenmere, at Floating bridge on Turnpike
Goodridge street, from Turnpike to Maple
Gravesend, crossing of Turnpike and Chestnut
Green street, from Broad street to Union
Greenwood court, from 103 Essex
Greenwood street, from Walnut
Grove street, from Boston street to Lover’s leap.
Hanover street, from N. Common to Franklin
Harbor street, from Shepard street near the water
Harrison court, from 13 Market street
Harwood street, from 96 N. Common street to Turnpike
Hesper square, junction of Boston street and Hesper
Hesper st., from Boston st. near Saugus river to Walnut st
High rock, north side of Essex street, near City square
High rock cottage, head Hutchinson court
High street, from Pearl street to City square

Holyoke street, from Walnut street to Holyoke spring
Howard street, from Chestnut street to Estes street

Hudson square, junction of Boston street and Summer
Hutchinson’s court, west side of Essex court
Ingalls pond, Fayette street, near Lewis

Ingalls street, from Chatham street to Jackson
Ireson street, from Union street to Essex
Jackson street, from Essex street to Sewall
Jefferson street, east side of Rockaway
King’s beach, east end of Lewis street
King street, from Ocean street to King’s beach
Laighton street, east side of Franklin street to Turnpike
Lake street, from Chestnut street to Maple
Lewis street, from Chestnut street to King’s beach
Lewis court, from 50 Lewis
Liberty square, junction of Union street and Broad
Liberty street, from Market street to City square
Light street, from 330 Summer street to Neptune
Lilymere, north side of Boston street, near the Danvers line
Linmere, at Mineral spring, on Salem line
Linden street, from Summer street to Elizabeth
Linwood st., from Walnut st. near Federal o Dungeon rock
Linwood place, from head of Grove street to Winter
Long beach, east end of Beach street to Nahant
Lover’s leap, north end of Grove street
Lowell street, from Summer street to Neptune
Lynnfield street, from Boston street at Wyoma to Lynnfield
Mailey street, from 190 Union
Mall street, from N. Common street to Boston
Mansfield’s hill, junction of Boston street and Chestnut
Maple Street, from Turnpike to Turnpike at Gravesend
Marianna street, from Chatham street to Jackson
Marion street, from Boston Street to Federal
Market square, at west end of the Common
Market street, from Broad street to the Common
Mason street, from Chestnut street to Village square
May Street, south side of Waterhill
Mineral spring, south side of Linmere lake
Minot Street, from 119 Turnpike to Neptune
Mountain court, east side of Rockaway street
Mount Vernon street, from Exchange Street to Silsbee
Mulberry street, from 83 Union street to Oxford

Munroe street, from Market Street to Spruce
Myrtle Street, from Boston street to Walnut
Nahant Street, from Broad Street to Long beach
Nelson Street, from 264 Turnpike to Cottage
Newhall’s court, south side of Essex Street
Newhall street, from Broad street to Beach
Neptune street, from Vine Street to Turnpike
Nichols street, from 34 Breed street
Nichols place, foot Nichols street
North Common street, north side of the Common
North bend, from Boston st. east of Pine Grove Cemetery
Oak street, north side of Walnut

Ocean Street, from Nahant street to Lewis
Olive Street, from Chestnut street to Fayette
Oneida court, north side of Lewis street
Ontario court, north side of Lewis street
Orange court, east side of Fayette street, at school-house
Oxford street, from Market street to High
Park square, east end of the Common
Park street, from North Common Street to Boston
Pearl street, from Union street to Essex
Perley street, from Boston street to Myrtle
Pine Grove Cemetery, north side of Boston st. near Spruce
Pine Grove avenue, from Linwood street, north of Poquannum hill to Pine Grove Cemetery
Pine hill, north side of Walnut street
Pinkham street, from Union street to Railroad
Pleasant street court, from 95 west side of Pleasant
Pleasant street, from 32 south Common street to Sea
Poquannum hill, from Federal street to Lover’s leap
Portland street, from Broad street to Baltimore
Porter street, from Essex street to Ingalls
Prospect street, from Summer street, below Shepard
Raddin’s court, near west end of Boston street
Railroad avenue, from Union street to Spruce
Red rock, south side of Ocean street
Red rock street, from Ocean street to Garland
River street, from Summer street to Saugus river
Rockaway street, from Essex street to Rock’s pasture
Sachem street, from Newhall street to Sagamore street
Sachem court, from Sachem street

Sadler’s rock, junction of Walnut street and Holyoke
Sagamore hill, near east end of Beach street
Sagamore street, from Beach street to Nahant street
Salem street, from Grove street westward

Saugus river, western boundary of Lynn
Saugus river, old bridge, at the mills on Boston street
Saugus river, new bridge, on Turnpike
School street, from 106 Union to Smith
Sea street, from 2 Market street to Pleasant
Sewall street, east side of Jackson

Shepard street, from South Common street to the water
Silsbee steet, from Broad street to Union

Smith street, from 114 Union street to Railroad

South Common street, south side of the Common
South street, from Turnpike to Neptune
Spring street, from 50 Exchange street to Broad
Spruce street, from Union street to Boston
Stacey’s brook, from Glenmere to King’s beach
Stickney street, east side of Commercial street
Strawberry avenue, west side of Franklin street
Strawberry brook, from Wenuchus lake to Saugus river
Suffolk court, from Suffolk street
Suffolk street, from Newhall street to Beach
Summer street from Market street to Boston street
Sumner court, from Turnpike near Saugus railroad
Sutton street, from Essex street to Liberty
Tontoquon hill, east of Lynnfield street, near the head of Wyoma lake
Tower hill, near the junction of Boston street and Summer
Tremont street, from 64 Market street to Pleasant
Turnpike street, from Saugus river to the Salem line
Union square, junction of Union street, Pearl and Silsbee
Union street, from Broad street to Chestnut
Union court, from 157 Union street
Village square, crossing of Essex street and Fayette
Vine street, from South Common street to Neptune
Violet street, from Green street to Piñkham
Violet court, from Pinkham street
Waitt’s avenue, Turnpike, near Floating bridge
Walnut street, from Federal street to the Saugus line
Warren street, from Shepard street to Vine
Washington court, from opposite 105 Summer street

Washington square, junction of Broad street and Nahant

Waterhill street, from Federal street to Cottage

Wave street, from Beach street to Nahant

Wenuchus lake, near junction of Boston and Chestnut sts.

West Baltimore street, from Newhall street to Nahant
Whiting street, from North Common street to Turnpike
Williams place, from Chatham

Willow street, from Union street to Liberty
Winter street, from Federal street to Grove
Woodend, crossing of Essex and Chestnut streets
Woodmere, north side of Lynnfield street, between Cedarlake and Wyoma lake

Wyoma lake, north east of Boston and Lynnfield streets
Wyoma village, junction of Boston and Lynnfield streets

HALLS, BUILDINGS, ETC.

Central Depot, Exchange, corner Union
City Hall, 50 South Common
Exchange Building, Market, near Common
Exchange Hall, in Exchange Building
Healey’s Arcade, west end of the Common
Kossuth Hall, Chestnut, near Union
Lyceum Building Market, corner Summer
Lyceum Hall, in Lyceum Building
Lynn Library Associaton, 3 Tremont
Masonic Hall, in Sagamore Building
Mechanics’ Hall, 101 Chestnut
Newhall & Ellis’s Building, Market square
Odd Fellows’ Hall, in Exchange Building
Post Office, in Lyceum Building, Summer,  corner Market
Sagamore Building, Union, near Central Depot
Sagamore Hall, in Sagamore Building

Saugus Branch Railroad Depot, Turnpike, near Summer
Taylor’s Building, South Common, corner Elm

Taylor’s Hall, in Taylor’s Building
Union Block, Union, near Central Depot
Usher’s Building, Market, n. S. Common
West Lynn Depot, foot of Commercial

WHARVES

Beach street wharf, 26 Beach street
Breed, S. N. & Co’s wharf, Broad, corner Beach
Breed’s wharf, south end of Commercial street
Central wharf, 2 Sea street
Chase’s wharf, Turnpike, on Saugus river

City wharf, 48 Beach street
Long wharf, junction Sea and Plesant streets

Lynn wharf, 34 Beach street

Newhall’s wharf, 8 Sea Street
Pecker’s wharf, 16 Sea Street
Raddin’s wharf, Summer street, on Saugus river

Sagamore wharf, 58 Beach street
Sea street wharf, 36 Sea street
Smith’s wharf, 61 Broad Street
Steam wharf, 13 Broad Street
Sweetser’s wharf, 1 Boston street, on Saugus river

ABBREVIATIONS.

St. for street; ct. court; pl. place; l. lane ; n. near; f. or fr. from; r. rear; sq. square; c. corner; b. boards; h. house; opp. opposite; (B.) Boston. After the name of the street, the word street is omitted.

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