Identifier: pictorialguideto00bost (find matches)
Title: Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Boston : G.W. Armstrong Dining Room & News Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ame of MaudRussell, wMfe of William Russell. The Harvard monument, agranite shaft, four feet square at the base, and fifteen feet high,occupies the highest point in the inclosure. It is the most con-spicuous object here, and was erected in 1828 by alumni of theUniversity. The inscriptions, now almost obliterated, are inthese words: (On the eastern face.) On the twenty-sixth day of September, A. D. 1828,this stone was erected by the graduates of the University at Cambridge in honorof its founder, who died at Charlestown on the twenty-sixth day of September,A. D. 1638. (Western face. In Latin.) That one who merits so much from our literarymen should no longer be without a monument, however humble, the graduatesof the University of Cambridge, New England, have erected this stone nearlytwo hundred years after his death, in pious and perpetual rem.embrance of JohnHarvard. Brighton is reached via Cambridge by cars starting from Bow-doin Square, or by Newton cars at Subway stations or Copley
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BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. 98 GUIDE TO BOSTON. Square. The latter route is more direct and pleasanter, the carsfollowing Boylston Street, Massachusetts Avenue, BeaconStreet, Commonwealth Avenue and Brighton Avenue to theNewton line. Brighton was settled in 1635, became a parish in1779, a town in 1807, and a part of Boston in 1874. It is a greatcattle market, and has extensive stockyards. The part of Brigh-ton which adjoins Brookline, called Aberdeen, is built up withdwellings of very unique and attractive character. ChestnutHill Reservoir is in the Brighton district, though commonlyreached by passing through Brookline. The West Roxbury district is reached by cars from the Sub-way stations or Copley Square. This district forms the extremesouthwesterly part of Boston, and has within its limits JamaicaPlain, Olmsted Park, the Arnold Arboretum, and FranklinPark, parts of the chain of Boston parks (See page 56);Mount Bellevue (348 feet), the highest of the hills of Boston;the Stony Brook Reserv

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