2015-12-08

Boston Pilot Site

Place: Boston Pilot Site
Address: 28 State Street
Neighborhood: Downtown

As I ventured around Downtown Boston on December 12, 2012, I found the site of another newspaper printing press along the former "Newspaper Row".
To visit the Boston Pilot Site, ride the Orange Line or Blue Line to State Street.

"This was the original site of the first Catholic newspaper published in the United States, founded here in 1829 as the Catholic Sentinel. In 1835, publisher Patrick Donahoe changed the name to The Boston Pilot. By 1850, it had become the voice of Boston's Irish community, serving both the local and national interests of thousands of immigrants who fled famine in Ireland. The Pilot enjoyed a national circulation under the editorships of famed poet John Boyle O'Reilly and his successor Katherine Conway. In 1908, The Pilot became the official paper of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston."



To learn more about the Boston Pilot Site:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilot_(newspaper)