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Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Some old trees.—number I (search)
6. The two others were near the middle of what is now Park street, both long since victims of the march of time. A chair made of the wood of the Old Elm is now in the Boston Public Library. One of its descendants was planted on the hill where the Soldiers' Monument stands in 1889, but it is not marked. Shawmut, as the new settlement was first named, thus presented a striking contrast to Charlestown, which is said to have been covered with timber at that time. Fuel was obtained from Deer Island. So the first duty of the new comers was to plant trees, and with an eye to domestic economy the first trees planted: were probably fruit trees. There were large gardens on the summit of Beacon Hill, and also some belonging to the residences along Summer street. A quaint story of one of these old gardens is given in an article entitled, A Colonial Boyhood, in a recent number of the Atlantic Monthly, and it runs as follows:— Come with me out of the Subway station at Scollay Squar
Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Index (search)
Lessons in Geography and Astronomy, 25. Curtis, David, 74. Curtis, H. K., 69. Curtis, Moses A., 23. Curtis, Otis, 85. Cutter, A., 13. Cutter, Charlotte. 75, 82, 83. Cutter, Eb., 14. Cutter, Edward, 13, 16. Cutter, Eliza Ann, 17, 72. Cutter, Fitch, 13, 96. Cutter, Richard E., 53. Dale, W., 14. Damon, Ellen A., 77, 83. Damon, Norwood P., 72, 74. Dane's Ledge, 57. Davenport, A., 13. Davis, D., 12. Davis, Mary J., 53. Davis Square, 62. Dedham, Mass., 9, Deer Island, 2. De las Casas, Mr., 31, 26, 37. Derby, General, Elias Hasket, 89. Derby Street, 90. Devens, David, Esq., 67. Dexte: Elm, 9. Dexter Street, Malden, 9. Dickson, A,. 14. Dickson, William, 11. Dodge, E. H., 76, 81. Dodge, Mary, 47, 49, 92. Dow, Frances, 53. Dow, Lorenzo W., 64. Dow, Mrs. L. W., 53. Draper, Martin, 67. Dupee, M. H., 81, 82. Dyer, Ezekiel D., 19. Eastman, Francis S., 46. East Watertown, Mass., 9. Eden Street, 81. Edlefson, Helen F., 53. Ell