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Why is Copley Square named after Copley?
By adamg on Mon, 08/06/2007 - 12:32pm
J.L. Bell discusses why one of this revoluionary city's most prominent squares is named for a Loyalist who fled Boston in 1774 for England. Also, he suggests the arriviste BPL should stop trying to get the Copley subway stop renamed for itself.
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Also named after a Loyalist: anything called Brattle
Brattle Street, Brattle Square, Brattle Theatre, Brattle Book Shop, Brattleboro VT -- all named for William Brattle, a Loyalist who fled from Cambridge to Nova Scotia during the Revolution.