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G.W. Bromley & Company’s “Atlas of the city of Boston: City Proper.” This excerpt shows Smith Court, off Joy Street, in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. It notes the African Meeting House as the “Colored Bapt[ist] Ch[urch]” and the Smith School.
Smith Court Stories is a collaborative project of the Museum of African American History and Boston African American National Historic Site – a unit of the National Parks of Boston.
The creators of Smith Court Stories acknowledge that Smith Court in Beacon Hill sits on the historical Massachusett tribe territories.