The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . .P. P. September, 1866. Col. Joseph Dudley, in 1810, gave a portion of his patrimo-nial estate as a site for a Town House. A two-story brickbuilding was erected, and was so far completed in February,1811, that a town meeting was then held there. The use of theupper story was granted by the town in 1818 to the NorfolkGuards, for an armory. A grammar school was subse-quently kept there, and in 1826 its basement was leased toNathaniel Dorr for
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . .P. P. September, 1866. Col. Joseph Dudley, in 1810, gave a portion of his patrimo-nial estate as a site for a Town House. A two-story brickbuilding was erected, and was so far completed in February,1811, that a town meeting was then held there. The use of theupper story was granted by the town in 1818 to the NorfolkGuards, for an armory. A grammar school was subse-quently kept there, and in 1826 its basement was leased toNathaniel Dorr for a market. After 1846 it was known asthe City Hall. Latterly it was used as a Court House, hav-ing cells for prisoners in its basement. Since its demolition,in 1873, to make room for the Dudlev School building:, the ?2 GO TOWN HOUSE. huge pineapple that formerly surmounted the edifice hasadorned a paint shop on Bar,tlett Street. An entry in the town records in 1083 of money paid JohnRuggles for mending the Town Hous. implies that at thattime such an edifice existed, though ail knowledge of itslocation has long been forgotten. Town meetings were in. toivx norsE. the olden time usually held in the old meeting-house, parishami town affairs being transacted at the same time andplace, no distinction being made between them. In theearliest days, • Brother John Johnsons house was occa-sionally the place of meeting. While the First Church wasrebuilding in 1803-4, meetings were held in the brick build-ing since known as Ionic Hall; and from March. 1805, untilthe completion of the Town Hall, the room over NathanielRuggles store, on Centre Street, served the purpose. Thetown meeting and the pulpit were in those days almost thesole agencies in the formation of public opinion. By the fire in Capt. John Johnsons house in April, 1G4j, TOWN* HOUSE. 261 all the records of the town were destroyed. The earliestexisting volume begins with a memorandum respecting thegarrison at the Castle, dated
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