. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ce to theroads that in 1775 gave communi-> cation to the town of Boston,s From Eoxbury the main road: passed through Brookhne andLittle Cambridge, now Brighton,crossing the causeway and bridgewhich leads directly to the Col-leges. This was the route bywhich Lord Percy marched toLexington. From Charlestown, after passing the ¥eck by an artificialcauseway, constructed in 1717, two roads diverged, as theynow do, at what was then a common, now known as SullivanSquare. Near the point where these roads separated was AnnaWhittemores tavern, at which the
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ce to theroads that in 1775 gave communi-> cation to the town of Boston,s From Eoxbury the main road: passed through Brookhne andLittle Cambridge, now Brighton,crossing the causeway and bridgewhich leads directly to the Col-leges. This was the route bywhich Lord Percy marched toLexington. From Charlestown, after passing the ¥eck by an artificialcauseway, constructed in 1717, two roads diverged, as theynow do, at what was then a common, now known as SullivanSquare. Near the point where these roads separated was AnnaWhittemores tavern, at which the Committee of Safety heldsome of its earliest sessions in 1774, and which had been an innkept by her father as early as the famous year 45, and perhapsearlier. Maiden Bridge is located upon the site of the oldPenny Ferry, over which travel to the eastward once passed. The first of these roads, now known as Washington Street,in Somerville, skirts the base of Prospect Hill, leaving theMcLean Asylum on the south, and conducting straight on to. 84 HISTORIC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX. the Colleges. By this road the Americans marched to andretreated from Bunker Hill. Lord Percy entered it at what isnow Union Square, in Somerville, and led his worn battalionsover it to Charlestown. The second road proceeded by Mount Benedict to the sum-mit of Winter Hill, where it divided, as at present; one branchturning northward by General Eoyalls to Medford, while theother pursued its way by the powder-magazine to what is nowArlington, then known as Menotomy. The road over WinterHill, by the magazine, which it has been stated was not laidout in 1775, is denominated a country road as early as 1703,and appears on the map included in this volume. Besides these there were no other roads leading to thecolonial capital. The shore between was yet a marsh, unim-proved, except for the hay it afforded, and reached oidy at afew points by unfrequented cartways. A causeway from theside of Prospect Hill,
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