Scope and Content: On Jan. 11, 1798, Gov. Increase Sumner led a parade from what was to become known as the Old State House to the newly completed  State House designed by Charles Bulfinch. This event was commemorated on its two hundredth anniversary (Jan. 11, 1998) by a similar parade led by Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin, Gov. Paul Cellucci, Senate President Thomas Birmingham, and House Speaker Thomas Finneran.  Speeches on the State House steps were followed in the Doric Hall inside the building by the dedication of a memorial  plaque.
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