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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908,
Union Square
and its neighborhood about the year 1846. (search)
West of Burbank's were the houses of Mr. Swett, of Mr. Leland, carriage builder, and of Mr. Pettengill, all still standing, and perhaps one or two others. Mr. Swett was killed at the Somerville-avenue crossing of the Fitchburg railroad. Along the west side of Beacon street, north of Washington (Kirkland street in Cambridge), lay Palfrey's and Norton's groves. These umbral parks were really in Cambridge; they were the resort of old and young in the summer time; they were owned by Hon. John G. Palfrey, author of the history of New England, and by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, a friend of Longfellow's. Mr. Norton is still living. From Union square west up Somerville avenue the nearest house was owned by Primus Hall, a colored man; it still stands. It has its corner cut off, which was done when that part of Somerville avenue was laid out about the year 1813, and again when the avenue was widened in 1874; previously it was reached by a court from Bow street. Further west, and back
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908,
Union Square
before the War.—(Il) (search)
pigs and s pointers met on May-day on the renowned (not then, but now) Prospect Hill, and there on the former tented field they met in war's grim struggle and settled, or tried to, their long-pent feuds; but these were bloodless fields, where a few stone bruises or fistic contusions constituted the losses on either side. Picnicking was a recreation of the days before the war; people from Union Square and its neighborhood found health and amusement in the sylvan retreats of Norton's or of Palfrey's groves, or in excursions to the grounds and groves of Fresh and Spy Ponds. Union Square, like all other communities, had of course from time to, time its little excitements, and occasionally larger ones. Among the latter was the great tidal wave which destroyed Minot's Ledge lighthouse; this wave swept inland, inundating all low lands in Boston and along the coast. It came up the Charles and Miller's Rivers, flooding all the lands along them nearly to or beyond the Brass Tube Works;
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Index (search)
Oak Street, 14, 34. Oasis, 6. Odiorne. William, 58. Offert's Cross Roads, Md., 18. Ogdensburg, N. Y., 10. Old Mill and Other Poems, 3. Olive Branch, 5, 41. Oliver, F. J., 22. Oliver. Judson W., 18, 22. One Hundred and Fourth New York. 62, 71. One Hundred and Seventh Pennsylvania, 21. Orange and Alexandria Railroad. 44. Orcutt, Edward L., 16. Orcutt, Levi, 8, 16. Original English Inhabitants and Early Settlers in Somerville, 25-31, 49-55. Page, Major, Caleb, 5. Palfrey, Hon. John G., 15. Palfrey's Grove, 15, 37. Palgrave, Richard, 28. Paine, Edward, 30. Palmer, Abraham, 29. Palmer, William D., 56. Park Street, 33. Parochial School, 33, 37, 40. Parry Brick Co., 10. Patten, Margaret, 50. Pemunky River, 61. Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C., 19. Perry, William A., 74. Petersburg, 65, 66, 69, 72. Pettengill.———, 14. Philadelphia, Penn., 18. Phillips. 10. Phipps, John, 50. Phipps, Solomon. 50. Pierce, Major, 62. Pierce, Mar<