A guide-book of Boston for physicians . ants were the first onthe New England coast to es-tablish fisheries. Two sites areworth mentioning,— Meeting-House Hill, which has had achurch on its summit since1631, and the Old Burying-Ground at the corner of Stough-ton Street and Columbia Mather, the founderof the Mather family, lies buriedhere, and William Stoughton,the chief justice of the Salemwitchcraft trials. Another in-teresting landmark, really inRoxbury, but close to Dorches-ter, is at the corner of Washing-ton and Eustis Streets — the Eliot Burying-Ground, where arethe tombs of
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . ants were the first onthe New England coast to es-tablish fisheries. Two sites areworth mentioning,— Meeting-House Hill, which has had achurch on its summit since1631, and the Old Burying-Ground at the corner of Stough-ton Street and Columbia Mather, the founderof the Mather family, lies buriedhere, and William Stoughton,the chief justice of the Salemwitchcraft trials. Another in-teresting landmark, really inRoxbury, but close to Dorches-ter, is at the corner of Washing-ton and Eustis Streets — the Eliot Burying-Ground, where arethe tombs of the Dudleys and John Eliot. // is open Saturday andSunday afternoons. Before leaving Dorchester mention must be made of themedical institutions. On Dorchester Avenue, near the Miltonline, is the Boston Home for Incurables, founded in 1882. It isa private institution of fifty beds, devoted to the care of thepoor afflicted with incurable diseases. On Quincy Street is an-other hospital for advanced consumptives, — the Free Home for. Dr. M. D. Miller, Photo. FIRST PARISH CHURCHMEETING-HOUSE HILL 120 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Consumptives, established in 1892, and supporting thirty Cushing Avenue is St. Marys Infant Asylum and Lying-inHospital, organized in 1874 by the Sisters of Charity, St. Vincentde Paul. The hospital has forty beds. ROXBURY THE Roxbury District, full of interest historically, isnow, as in earlier years, a place of residences. In 1630a band of settlers coming over with Winthrop tookup their abode here, settling near the present Eliot Square. Itwas called Rocksbury or Rocksborough, from the great ledge ofrocks running through it, the so-called Roxbury recalls the legend of the giant, familiar to the childrenof Boston, through Dr. Holmess poem: He brought them a pudding stuffed with plums, As big as the State House dome;Quoth he, i( Theres something for you to eat,So stop your mouths with your lection treat, And wait till your da
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