Cattle Fair Hotel is built.

The wood-frame hotel is located on the site of the former Hastings Tavern on the northwest corner of today’s Washington Street and Market Street. Built to accommodate those doing business with the stockyards, it is managed by Zachariah Porter, who later runs the Porter House Hotel in Cambridge and for whom the Porterhouse steak are named. The Cattle Fair is advertised as “having been arranged with particular attention to the traveller and the drover, both as to comfort and convenience.” The hotel is expanded by William Washburn in 1852. It is torn down in 1898.