. Rand, McNally Boston guide to the city and environs, with maps and illustrations ... Oliver Wendell Holmes Walk Long Path Boston Common Page 44 44 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE. in 1888. The ShawMemorial, by Aug-ustus St. Gaudens,stands on the Bea-con St. side, facingthe State represents Gould Shawmounted and rid-ing beside his col-ored troops, the54 th Regiment ofMassachusetts In-fantry. Col. Shawwas killed whileleading an attackon Fort Wagner,July 18, 1863, whenonly twenty-five years old. One of the conspicuous objects ofthe Common is the Brewer Fountain on the Park St. sid
. Rand, McNally Boston guide to the city and environs, with maps and illustrations ... Oliver Wendell Holmes Walk Long Path Boston Common Page 44 44 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE. in 1888. The ShawMemorial, by Aug-ustus St. Gaudens,stands on the Bea-con St. side, facingthe State represents Gould Shawmounted and rid-ing beside his col-ored troops, the54 th Regiment ofMassachusetts In-fantry. Col. Shawwas killed whileleading an attackon Fort Wagner,July 18, 1863, whenonly twenty-five years old. One of the conspicuous objects ofthe Common is the Brewer Fountain on the Park St. side. Itis a copy in bionze of a fountain designed by the French artist,Lienard, which was awarded a gold medal at the Worlds Fairof 1855. The Long Path, made dear to many through thewalk taken there by the Autocrat and the schoolmistress,runs from the corner of Boy 1st on and Tremont Sts. to theGuild Memorial steps. It passes the spot where once stoodthe Great Elm from the limbs of which executions are sup-posed to have taken place in the early days. This tree, oldwhen the town was founded, lasted until blown down in a Hooper-Hathaway House (1683) Formerly called The Old
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