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After a devastating fire in Boston in 1873, many factories relocated to Chelsea, just a mile away across the Mystic River. An inexpensive passenger ferry also made Chelsea a convenient destination for the rising number of immigrants arriving in Boston. With jobs and affordable housing, the city by the early twentieth century had grown from a summer retreat for the wealthy to one of the most densely populated cities in America. When fire struck again, this time in Chelsea on April 12, 1908, it demolished a large section of the city. Images of the fire, the rebuilding that followed, the Great Depression, the war years, and one of the biggest changes to face the city--the building of the Mystic River Bridge--are all contained in Chelsea in the 20th Century.

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• Full title: Chelsea in the 20th Century
• Author: Margaret Harriman Clarke, Margaret Harriman Clarke
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780738536286
• ISBN: 0738536288
• ID: 11466928
• Publisher: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Weight: 304 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 165 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: December 2004

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