HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

This week’s story ties one of modern Boston’s iconic Freedom Trail sites to the earliest days of English settlement in the Shawmut Peninsula. It’s a story that ties the first Puritan to die in Boston to the hated Royal governor Edmund Andros, and it ties some of the earliest non-English immigrants in Boston to Ben Franklin and Abigail Adams through the invention of two local industries. King’s Chapel is beloved in Boston today, but it was seen as an unwelcome invasion when it was first proposed in 1686. In this week’s show, we’ll look at how Boston found room for an unwanted church, how the church was reinvented three times, and how it launched local glassmaking and founded the granite industry in Quincy. We’ll also see where you can still find the last traces of the original, wooden King’s Chapel hiding inside the walls of a more modern church, but not here in Boston.

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Building King’s Chapel King’s Chapel ca 1710 Hammered granite and handblown glass at King’s Chapel The foundation of King’s Chapel The rafters at King’s Chapel The Paul Revere bell was a later addition to King’s Chapel Inside King’s Chapel Interpretive material at King’s Chapel Interpretive material at King’s Chapel

• Annals of King’s Chapel, vol 1
• Annals of King’s Chapel, vol 2
• The failed 1711 invasion of Quebec
• Metcalf, Priscilla. “Boston before Bulfinch: Harrison’s King’s Chapel.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 13, no. 1, 1954
• To Benjamin Franklin from John Franklin, 26 November 1753
• Three Episodes of Massachusetts History, Charles Francis Adams
• THE EXCAVATION OF THE GLASS FURNACE IN QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS, George R. Horner
• History of the Granite Industry of New England, Arthur Wellington Brayley
• “Holy jigsaw puzzle: After a fire gutted a historic church, N.S. town began an incredible reconstruction”
• “Historic N.S. church destroyed in blaze”
• “Historic Lunenburg church reopens”

More Episodes

• Taking Louisbourg, the Gibraltar of North America (episode 132)
• The 1689 Uprising in Boston, revisited (episode 165)
• The Original War on Christmas (episode 212)
• Episode 57: Boston and Halifax, a lasting bond