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Before turning into a restaurant in 1826, this building held At the Sign of the Cornfields, a formal dress store — in 1771 a printer named Isaiah Thomas used the second floor to publish a newspaper called The Massachusetts Spy. The original name of the restaurant was the Atwood and Bacon Oyster House, but quickly changed to the Union Oyster House. The restaurant claims that the toothpick was popularized here after a businessman imported the picks from South America and hired eager Harvard University students to dine at the Union Oyster House and request the convenient teeth-cleaning tools. Union Oyster House is registered as a National Historic Landmark. unionoysterhouse/pages/history.html
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:47:26 +0000

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