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• the urn atop Charles Bulfinch's grave in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, U.S. once stood at the center of Franklin Place, Boston?
• the Tremont Street Subway in Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest subway tunnel in North America?
• the U. S. Custom House (pictured) in Charleston, South Carolina, resembles the U.S. Custom House in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by the same architect, Ammi B. Young?
• the Underwood Canning Company went to packing their food products in tin because glass makers in Boston, Massachusetts could not keep up with the company's demands?
• many old buildings near Government Center in Boston once hid fugitive slaves riding the Underground Railroad?
• like the characters in his television series The Practice and Boston Legal, David E. Kelley worked as a lawyer in a Boston law firm?
• St. Stephen's is the last remaining Bulfinch-designed church in Boston?
• Museum Wharf in Boston has a 40' (12 m) tall milk bottle (pictured) that was built during the Great Depression and transported to the wharf by barge in the 1970s?
• Zinfandel (pictured) was grown for table grapes in Boston long before it made wine in California?
• at less than 11 feet (3.4 m) wide, the Skinny House (pictured) is the narrowest house in Boston, Massachusetts?
• Julia Ward Howe, author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and champion of emancipation and women's suffrage, was also a founder of the Women's Rest Tour Association of Boston?