
See how cannabis hemp is intertwined and woven into Boston's history during colonial times and well into the 1800's. Learn how ropewalks used hemp to create the cordage and rigging for the sailing ships of the day. Did you know that ropewalk workers were involved in the Boston Massacre? See old maps showing that ropewalks used to be near the Boston Common, Beacon Hill and the Old State House. Visit the Plymouth Cordage Company's ropewalk that is now at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut. Check out the immense granite ropewalk at the Charlestown Navy Yard. Sources used for this include: Boston's Workers: A labor History, James R. Green & Hugh Carter Donahue, 1979 History of Manufactures in the United States, Volume I: 1607-1860, Victor S. Clark, W. Farnam. New York, P. Smith, 1959 Boston; A Topographical History, Walter Muir Whitehill, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959 The Book of Boston: The Federal Period 1775-1837, Marjorie Drake Ross, Hastings House Publishers, 1961 Commonwealth History of Massachusetts, Volume 4 (of 5), Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, The States History Company, 1927-28 The Story of Rope, The History and the Modern Development of Rope-Making, Compiled and published by Plymouth Cordage Company, 1916 Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Noyes, Holmes, & Co., 1872 Portrait of a Port: Boston, 1852-1914, WH Bunting, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971 Currier, History of <b>...</b>
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