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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Union Square and its neighborhood about the year 1846 . (search)
Union Square and its neighborhood about the year 1846. By Charles D. Elliot.
I first knew Union square in 1846, at which time it was called Sand Pit square, a name said to have been given it, facetiously or otherwise, by some of the gentlefolk of Winter Hill.
the name, though not euphonious, was appropriate, as its western side bordered sand lands that for years supplied the neighboring brick yards, as well as cities, with the best of silica.
In shape it was not a square, for it was wide at its easterly and westerly ends, and narrow at its centre, so that, considering that for years sand was passing through it, it might with propriety have been christened the Hour Glass.
Later on a flagstaff was erected in it, and from that time till the Civil War it was known as Liberty Pole square.
When the war began it became a recruiting centre and took its present name of Union square.
In confining my recollections to about the year 1846, I am obliged to leave out many prominent peop
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Officers of Somerville historical society (search)
Union Square before the War.—(Il) By Charles D. Elliot.
In the paper which I read last year upon Union Square, I made mention, as well as I could remember, of the people living there and in the regions adjacent about the year 1846, of their descendants, and of the locations of their residences and estates.
I referred by name to more than 175 of our citizens or their children who lived at or near the Square, and whose Mecca it was; from their homes all roads led to Union Square, as in ancient Limes they did to Rome.
That I did not attempt to write the virtues of these early Somerville people by no means indicates that they were undeserving in fact, they were a model community, as a whole, honest, industrious, unostentatious, and neighborly.
Unpleasant episodes occasionally varied the even tenor of their days, but I now recall but little that occurred to mar the pleasant memories of those people and times.
And now I wish to speak of the topography, or lay of the land, as old
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Officers of Somerville historical Society (search)
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, chapter 11 (search)
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, List of members Past and present (search)
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, List of Officers Past and present (search)
List of Officers Past and present
Presidents
Mr. George A. Bruce, 1897-1898
Mr. Charles D. Eliot, 1898-1900
Mr. John F. Ayer, 1901-1904
Mr. Frank M. Hawes, 1905——
Vice-presidents
Mr. Charles D. Elliot, 1897
Mr. John F. Ayer, 1898, 1905-1907
Mr. Elbridge S. Brooks, 1898-1901
Mr. Frederic W. Parker. 1898
Mr. John S. Emerson, 1899
Mr. Luther B. Pillsbury, 1901-1905
Mr. James F. Whitney, 1901, 1904-1906
Mr. Levi L. Hawes, 1902-1907
Mr. Seth Mason, 1902
Mr. Oliver Bacon, 1903
Mr. F. DeWitt Lapham, 1907
Recording secretaries
Mr. George F. Loring, 1897-1898
Mr. Alfred Morton Cutler, 1899
Mrs. Florence E. Holmes, 1905-1907
Miss Florence E. Carr, 1900-1902
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Hammond, 1903-1904
Corresponding secretaries
Mr. George E. Littlefield, 1897
Mrs. V. E. Ayer, 1898-1904
Miss Florence E. Carr, 1905
Mrs. Ella Ruth Hurd, 1906-1907
Treasurers
Mr. Frederic W. Stone, 1897-1899
Mr. Oliver Bacon, 1900-1902
Mr. Seth Mason, 1903-1906
Mr. Will