Milk Street is a street in the financial district of Boston, Massachusetts.

Milk Street was one of Boston's earliest highways. The name "Milk Street" was given to the street in 1708 due to the milk market at the location. One of the first post offices in Boston was located on the street in 1711, when the first regular postal routes to Maine, Plymouth and New York were established.

Grace Croft's 1952 work, titled "History and Genealogy of Milk Family", also proposes that Milk Street may have been named for John Milk, an early shipwright in Boston. The land was originally conveyed to his father, also John Milk, in October 1666.

Old South Meeting House

Old South Meeting House

The Old South Meeting House , in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, gained fame as the organizing point for the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. 5,000 colonists gathered at the Meeting House, the largest building in Boston at the time.-Church :The church, with its 56 m ...

 is located at the corner of Milk and Washington

Washington Street (Boston)

Washington Street is a street originating in downtown Boston, Massachusetts that extends southwestward to the Massachusetts-Rhode Island state line. The majority of it was built as the Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike in the early nineteenth century...

. The street is also the home of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...

's birthplace site.

Subway connection

The closest subway stop to Milk Street is State Street

State (MBTA station)

State, well known as State Street, is a subway station of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, State is the transfer point between the Orange Line and the Blue Line.-Description:...

.

See also

• Old South Meeting House
  Old South Meeting House
  The Old South Meeting House , in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, gained fame as the organizing point for the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. 5,000 colonists gathered at the Meeting House, the largest building in Boston at the time.-Church :The church, with its 56 m ...
  
  , at the corner of Washington St.

Former tenants

• J.L. Cunningham
  Joseph Lewis Cunningham
  Joseph Lewis Cunningham or J. L. Cunningham worked as an auctioneer in Boston, Massachusetts, in the first half of the 19th century...
  
  , auctioneer, worked in Corinthian Hall, corner Federal St., 1826-1843
• Benjamin Dearborn
  Benjamin Dearborn
  Benjamin Dearborn was a printer and mechanical inventor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Boston, Massachusetts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries...
  
  , inventor, lived on Milk St.
• Abram French
  Abram French
  Abram French was a crockery, glassware, and china dealer in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.-Brief biography:French was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts in February 1805, a descendant of William Abrams of Boston. He clerked for crockery merchant Samuel B. Pierce on Broad Street, Boston,...
  
   ran a crockery business on Milk St. in the 19th c.
• David Claypoole Johnston
  David Claypoole Johnston
  David Claypoole Johnston was an 19th-century American cartoonist, printmaker, painter and actor from Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  , artist, kept a studio on Milk St. in the 19th c.
• Julien's Restorator
  Julien's Restorator
  Julien's Restorator was a restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts, established by French-born Jean Baptiste Gilbert Payplat dis Julien...