Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . ors are freely admitted. The yardcovers Moullons Point, where the British troops landed for the (94) OCTLYING DISTRICTS OF BOSTON. 95 Battle of Bunker Hill. The granite walls enclose ninety-oneacres with a water frontage of a mile and three-quarters. Thecommandants house and some of the other buildings date fromthe early years of the nineteenth century. The rope-walk, thedry-dock, and the Naval Museum are points which will attractvisitors; but the chief interest of all will centre in Old Iron-sides, which now lies quietly at anchor after her t
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . ors are freely admitted. The yardcovers Moullons Point, where the British troops landed for the (94) OCTLYING DISTRICTS OF BOSTON. 95 Battle of Bunker Hill. The granite walls enclose ninety-oneacres with a water frontage of a mile and three-quarters. Thecommandants house and some of the other buildings date fromthe early years of the nineteenth century. The rope-walk, thedry-dock, and the Naval Museum are points which will attractvisitors; but the chief interest of all will centre in Old Iron-sides, which now lies quietly at anchor after her toilsome butglorious career. From the Navy Yard walk by way of Wrapping, Chelsea andChestnut streets to Bunker Hill Monument on Breeds after entering Chestnut Street, Winthrop Square, the oldtraining field, is passed on the left. The monument covers thesoutheast corner of the old redoubt behind which the Americansstood on the seventeenth of June, 1775. The obelisk measuresthirty feet square at its base, and rises to the apex, two hundred. OLD IRONSIDES. 96 GUIDE TO BOSTON. and twenty feet. The observatory at the top is reached by aspiral flight of two hundred and ninety-five stone steps. It is aweary climb, but the magnificent views from the windows am-ply repay one for the effort. In the lodge at the base of themonument is a museum containing various memorials of thebattle, a statue of General Warren, and a model of the firstmonument. The monument was designed by Greenough. Itwas begun in 1825, completed in 1842, and formally dedicated onJune 17, 1843. The occasion was a memorable one. PresidentJohn Tyler, with the members of his cabinet, were among themen of distinction present, and ]Mr. Webster was theorator. A memorial stone in the path-edge near the mon-ument is supposed to mark the spot where Warren fell,but the actual place was further north, at the headot Pleasant Street, where the Methodist Church now spot where Prescott stood at the opening of the
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