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This book is a guidebook to Boston and outlying neighborhoods and municipalities with a focus on sites which have experienced social injustices, transformations and inclusivity.
The section on Lawrence features the Lawrence Experiment Station/Ferrous Site Park at zero Island St and the confluence of the Merrimack and Spicket RIiers; the former locations of American Woolen Company at 1 Mill St.; Franco-Belgian Hall at 9 Mason St.; North Lawrence Railroad Station at Essex St. and Broadway; Jonas Smolskas House at 96 Lawrence St.; and The Arlington Mills at 550 Broadway; Schaake's Block at 234 Essex St. Also featured are the Essex Company's Headquarters/Lawrence History Center at 6 Essex St.; Bread and Roses Housing at 210 - 212 Park St.; and the epicenter of the 1984 Riots on Oxford and Haverhill Sts. The book also offers the reader listings of resources to lean more about the sites that are featured in the book.