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Lost ยท shipyard

Jackman Shipyard

Site of the Jackman family shipyard at the foot of Forrester Street. George W. Jackman, the Civil War mayor, built gunboats here and the two largest wooden steamships built in Massachusetts; it closed in 1874.

On the walk
Along the River: The North End Shipyards

Nothing of it stands today. Photographs, old views and ephemera for this place are still to come.

The map pin for this place is approximate.