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Arial View of South Boston/Ft Point Channel

AERIAL VIEW OF BOSTON FROM THE WEST
AERIAL VIEW OF SOUTH BOSTON AND FORT POINT CHANNEL
Fairchild Aerial Surveys Photograph - 1925

Note: Summer Street can be glimpsed between the buildings along the bottom edge of the photo. The main streets in the Fort Point Channel Area are Congress, Summer and Mt. Washington running away from the Channel and A Street and Necco Street running parallel to the Channel. Other important streets are Melcher, that curves down from Summer St. to A St./ Pittsburgh, Stillings, Farnsworth and Sleeper that run off Congress toward Northern Avenue/ Wormwood and Binford that run off A Street toward the freight yards.

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