New Chardon Street is a street in downtown

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, across from

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. The two-way street continues east across Congress Street, ending at Haymarket Square with access to the

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/ U.S. 1/ Route 3), as well as local access to Washington Street North and the

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History

New Chardon Street was originally Chardon Street, connecting Bowdoin Square to Merrimac and

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s (where Congress Street now intersects). The street was originally "laid out through the Parker-Gerrish pasture in 1682. It was called "the highway to Jackson's distill house," "the lane to the mill pond," and in 1785, "Chardon's lane." Chardon Street was named after a

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descendant, Peter Chardon, who acquired the property on the street in 1733 and "built a house on the corner of the street bearing his name. He was a man of polished manners, and an influential merchant of the old time. A school-house was erected in 1804, at the corner of Chardon and Hawkins Streets." Hawkins Street was also the site of many

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houses. In the nineteenth century, Chardon street was home to Chardon Street Chapel (1838), a large church founded by Joshua V. Himes, an early leader of the

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. The full length of the street had

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tracks added between 1872 and 1874; they were gone by 1925. The street stayed in the same configuration until the 1960s, when Government Center was built and the streets in the area were reconfigured. Chardon Street was realigned and renamed New Chardon Street, made one-way westbound, and extended east to Washington Street North and the

as a continuation of

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in the early 2000s, the road was made two-way, along with easier access to the

and

s at its east end provided by new ramps.

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