Davy Crockett visits Boston.
May 11, 1834
[5/6] The Congressman from Kentucky tours the Perkins School for the Blind. He also visits Lowell, because, he later writes, “I wanted to see the power of machinery wielded by the keenest calculation of human skill.” Crockett dies two years later at the Battle of the Alamo.
Sources
- Adams, Russell B. Jr.