Leading business men of Milford, Hopkinton, and vicinity: embracing also Ashland, Holliston and Hopedale . ourth of January follow-ing, at a second meeting, it was voted to erect a meeting-house on the southeast-erly side of Jasper Hill, on the westerly side of the road, on the HonorableColonel Browns farm. It was to be 40 x 32 feet in dimensions, and to have apost-height of twenty feet. The house was finished in 1728, and was repairedand enlarged about a half-century later, being the only house of worship in townuntil 1822. Between the middle of December, 1753, and the first of February, 66 H
Leading business men of Milford, Hopkinton, and vicinity: embracing also Ashland, Holliston and Hopedale . ourth of January follow-ing, at a second meeting, it was voted to erect a meeting-house on the southeast-erly side of Jasper Hill, on the westerly side of the road, on the HonorableColonel Browns farm. It was to be 40 x 32 feet in dimensions, and to have apost-height of twenty feet. The house was finished in 1728, and was repairedand enlarged about a half-century later, being the only house of worship in townuntil 1822. Between the middle of December, 1753, and the first of February, 66 HISTOBICAL SKETCH OF HOLLISTON. 1754, Holliston was visited by a strange disease, some of the symptoms of whichwere not unlike the influenza or la grippe of 1889-90. The sufferers hadviolent and piercing pains in the breast or side, a high fever, and great diffi-culty of expectoration. This was a terrible fatal sickness, however, and sweptoff more than one-eighth of the population, or fifty-three out of four-hundred. Themost singular feature of this pestilence was that it was confined to this one town^. CoK. Washington and Central Streets. and departed as it came, apparently without cause. The people looked upon it^of course, as a visitation of Providence, and were greatly impressed thereby, itputting an end to all unneighborly contentions for a considerable time. Hollis-ton came bravely to the front in the Revolution, fully endorsing the action of theopponents of the Stamp Act and other oppressive measures, and freely votingmoney and supplies for the Continental Army. There is no record of the num-ber of men furnished, but there is no doubt but that the town went beyond whatwas legally demanded. Equal patriotism was shown during the Civil War, threehundred and fifty-four soldiers being furnished, of whom sixty-six were nativesof the town. Money was appropriated in 1866 for the erection of a SoldiersMonument, and the square granite shaft stands in the southeast corner of thecent
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