Plaque hanging on the wall inside the MBTA's State Street station commemorating the opening of the East Boston Tunnel(later MBTA's Blue Line)

The plaque reads:

EAST BOSTON TUNNEL
ORDERED BY THE LEGISLATURE- 1897
ROGER WOLCOTT- GOVERNOR
JOSIAH QUINCY- MAYOR OF BOSTON
BEGUN AT MAVERICK SQUARE- MAY 5, 1900
OPENED- DECEMBER 30, 1904

BUILT BY THE BOSTON TRANSIT COMMISSION
GEORGE G. CROCKER- CHAIRMAN
CHARLES DALTON GEORGE F. SWAIN
THOMAS J. CARGAN HORACE G. ALLEN
HOWARD A. CARSON- CHIEF ENGINEER

Photographed by Edward Findlay, December 17, 2004.
Added to the photo archive by Edward Findlay, December 17, 2006.
Railroad: MBTA.

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