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The Winnisimmet Ferry was a ferry between Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States, and Boston's North End. Founded in 1631, when Chelsea was called Winnisimmet, it was the oldest ferry in the country. It ceased operations in 1917. The original ferry was started by Thomas Williams (alias Harris) on 18 May 1631. After Harris' untimely death in 1634, William Stitson (who married Thomas' widow Elizabeth) took over the ferry.

The Montgomery & Howard shipyard in Chelsea, Massachusetts, built passenger steamboats, pilot boats, and ferryboats. They built for the Winnisimmet Ferry Company, Old Colony Steamship Company and the Fall River Line.

A temporary ferry service under the same name ran from May 15 to September 28, 1990, during early Big Dig construction. Privately funded and operated, it ran between Rowes Wharf in Boston and a pier in Chelsea Creek near Marginal Street.

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  1. "The Ferry Five". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  2. Hudson, George S. (May 1917). "Boston Bay News". Marine Review. Vol. 47, no. 5. p. 186 – via Google Books.
  3. Brown, Gerard (August 11, 2004). Chelsea. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0738536091.
  4. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay: 1628–1686- Nathaniel Shurtleff, Ed., Boston, 1853- Vol. I, p. 87
  6. Gillespie, Charles Bancroft (1898). The City of Chelsea. Chelsea, Massachusetts: Chelsea Gazette. p. 137.
  7. Rosenberg, Ronald (May 14, 1990). "Chelsea-Boston ferry to begin tomorrow". Boston Globe. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.[REDACTED]
  8. Rosenberg, Ronald (October 1, 1990). "Some still think of North–South rail link". The Boston Globe. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Rosenberg, Ronald (July 9, 1990). "And now, training for concert-goers". The Boston Globe. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
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