Old Parsonage

Historical marker location:

Shirley, Massachusetts

( Marker is on Phoneix Street, 0.1 miles south of Front Street (Local Route .1), on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1930

1630 - 1930.

The Boston Molasses Disaster occurred in 1919 when a large tank of molasses burst and flooded the streets of Boston's North End, killing 21 people and injuring 150.