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B o s t o n : As Rich In History Today As It Ever Was. Fallen American Heroes. A memorial behind the North Street Church honoring our recent fallen heroes. Churches: Where They Worshiped. Kings Chapel. The pulpit of King’s Chapel. The pew where George Washington sat to worship.
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A memorial behind the North Street Church honoring our recent fallen heroes.
The site of the largest bank robbery in American history. The Great Brink's Robbery was an armed robbery of the Brinks Building in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on January 17, 1950.The robbery resulted in the theft of $1,218,211.19 in cash, and over $1.5-million in checks, money orders and other securities. At the time, it was the largest robbery in the history of the United States. Skillfully executed with only a bare minimum of clues left at the crime scene, the robbery was billed as "the crime of the century". The robbery was the work of an eleven-member gang, all of whom were later arrested.