. The street railway review . flowerbeds and ponds. In this cemetery are buried 32,000 persons,among them .\gassiz, Spurzhelm. Bowditch, Asa (, Ticknor,Sparks, Felton, Fields, Talfrey, Willis, Tierpont. Quincy, R. , Burlingame. Channing, Rufus Choate, T. W. Parsons,Dorothea Dix. Fanny Fern. Dr. Howe, and the Universalist apos-tles, John Murray and Ballon; Phillips Brooks is near the Kearsarge which sunk the Alabama; (iovernors Rice and Gas-ton, Col. Joseph Williams, Martin Millmore. the sculptor; LinusChilds, the eminent lawj-er, and Kev. A. A. Miner. Bunker Hill monumen
. The street railway review . flowerbeds and ponds. In this cemetery are buried 32,000 persons,among them .\gassiz, Spurzhelm. Bowditch, Asa (, Ticknor,Sparks, Felton, Fields, Talfrey, Willis, Tierpont. Quincy, R. , Burlingame. Channing, Rufus Choate, T. W. Parsons,Dorothea Dix. Fanny Fern. Dr. Howe, and the Universalist apos-tles, John Murray and Ballon; Phillips Brooks is near the Kearsarge which sunk the Alabama; (iovernors Rice and Gas-ton, Col. Joseph Williams, Martin Millmore. the sculptor; LinusChilds, the eminent lawj-er, and Kev. A. A. Miner. Bunker Hill monument, in Charlestown, built in 1825-42, ofQuincy granite, is 30 ft. square at the base, and 221 ft. high. Thetop is r(a<h(Ml Ijy 294 steps, and superl)ly overlooks the city andthe sea, and the far mountains. Wachusett and Monadnoek. Hereare two quaint Provincial cannons. Dexters statue of Warren isin the lodge and Storys noble bronze statue of Colonel in the main path. On a June night of 1775 Prescott led his. old chapel; Lowell to the left of the gateway; Longfellow andParkman, on Indian Ridge; Holmes, on Lime avenue; and Sum-ner, Everett, Edwin Booth and Charlotte Cushman. near the far-viewing tower on the hill. Forest Hills Cemetery contains over 204 acres and asleep theieare many noted men. A fine bronze tablet marks the grave, onEliot path, of Gen. William Heath who issued the first generalorder of the Revolution, and also tlie last general order at thedisbandment of the Revolutionary army. On the summit ofMt. Warren in a lot in the shape of a half moon, the ashes of thefamous General Warren with other members of his family havebeen re-interred. Among the others buried there are Major Gen-oral Dearborn, Admiral John ,\. Winslow who commanded the New England volunteers here and fortified; and at moruingwas attacked by 4,00i> royal troops, whom he and Putnam re-pulsed twice; and then they stormed his redoubt. The British lost1,154; the Americans 441
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