The State-house is on an open square on Beacon street, fronting the common. It is 173 feet in length and 61 in breadth. Its size and elevation make it a very conspicuous object in Boston as approached. It was constructed at an expense of $133,333.
“Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life” - Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Maryland...
