Merchants Row (Boston)

It sits close to Long Wharf and Dock Square, hubs of shipping and trade through the 19th century.

[1] "On the west side of Merchants' Row, about midway from State Street to Faneuil Hall, was the first house of entertainment in Boston.

[11] Around 1789: auctioneers Adams & Molineux; hatter Joseph Eaton; hatter and furrier Russel Sturges; hair-dresser Abraham Haywood; the inn at the "sign of the Golden-ball"; grocer Daniel Oliver; and merchants Samuel Bradford, John Erving Jr., Charles Miller, Samuel Parkman, William Phillips, James Tisdale, William White, Peter Wainwright, Ebenezer Wild, and Daniel Wild.

[12] Samuel Sumner kept a crockery shop at the corner of State Street (c. 1798-1805), in the building formerly occupied by the Admiral Vernon Tavern.

[13][14] Future founder of the Old Farmer's Almanac, Robert Bailey Thomas, studied with mathematician Osgood Carleton in 1792, "in an unfinished building in Merchant's Row.

Corner of Merchants Row and State Street, Boston, 19th-century ( Old State House at left)
Detail of 1743 map of Boston, showing Merchants Row at the waterfront
Sign of the Golden Ball tavern