The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . - spring withchildlike delight. Hewas fond of flowers,and knew the namesof most of those fou ndin New England, andtook frequent ramblesthrough the of his favoritewalks took himthrough the Whitingfarm to a grove nowon the land of Mr. C. S. Perham, where his favorite tree, known far and wide as Theodore Parkers Oak. still lives and flourishes, thoughvenerable with age and showing symptoms of decay. In hisjournal he thus refers to it
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . - spring withchildlike delight. Hewas fond of flowers,and knew the namesof most of those fou ndin New England, andtook frequent ramblesthrough the of his favoritewalks took himthrough the Whitingfarm to a grove nowon the land of Mr. C. S. Perham, where his favorite tree, known far and wide as Theodore Parkers Oak. still lives and flourishes, thoughvenerable with age and showing symptoms of decay. In hisjournal he thus refers to it: — May, 1851. At West Roxbury in the afternoon. The PohjgaUapauciflnra just opening; laid some at the loot of my favorite tree inmemory of old times, — the great oak. One of the finest farms in Roxbury is that of Mr. Aaron D. AVeld. lvine on both sides of Weld Street, a part of it inBrookline, and containing nearly three hundred acres. Someof this land belonged originally to the family, but a portionof it was bought bv Deacon David, great-grandson of THEODORE PARKERS OAK. BROOK FARM. 455 John Weld, of the heirs of Capt. John Baker, in David Welds maternal grandfather was Col. AaronDavis, whose name was borne b} his son, and is continuedby his son, the present owner of the estate. The old farm-house formerly stood on the west side of the street, nearChurch Street, half a mile from the new mansion house, andnear where a large barn now stands. Brook Farm, a tract of two hundred acres in the north-west corner of the town, between Baker Street and CharlesRiver, formerly a part of Newton, was purchased in 1841 b}George Ripley and others, who associated themselves togetheras The Brook Farm Institute of Education and Agricul-ture, and who were afterwards incorporated under the nameof ?• The Brook Farm Phalanx. After occupying it for fiveor six years the} sold it to the city of Roxbury in 1849 for aPoor Farm. In 1861, while the property of Rev. James Free-man
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