Batterymarch St

The street gained its name from the company of British soldiers that marched from their barracks to the South Battery and back again every day. The map shows the original marchway as running down this street as well as along 2 blocks of Purchase st (From Oliver St to Broad St). (See South Battery for more info on the fortifications of the area)

Around 1800, a consortium of investors that included the entrepreneur Uriah Cotting, Francis Cabot Lowell and sea captain Henry Jackson commissioned Charles Bulfinch to create plans for 10 retail stores. They offered these stores for sale at $5,000 apiece, a sum that could be paid in installments over years. Mr. Bulfinch was an extraordinary architect but a terrible businessman. The investors probably paid him as little for the Batterymarch Street shops as they later did for his Broad Street plans—about $40. That’s a paltry $573 in today’s money. For years the street housed taverns and coffee houses.

-Source Links-

https://aknextphase.com/tag/south-battery/

https://aknextphase.com/batterymarch-street-who-goes-there/

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/siege-of-boston-map.htm