Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . 94. Burned in 1846. This spot is identified with the towns history for 150 years. The old Burying-Ground must claim our attention for a few minutes, and then we should give, at least, a half hour to the relics in Memorial Hall of the Town House. Over the arch at the entrance of the hall we read this inscription: Lexington consecrates this hall and its emblems to the memory of the founders and the sustainers of our free institutions. TROLLEY TRIPS. 141 Admission to this collection is free, and among the treasuresare Major Pitcairns pistols,
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . 94. Burned in 1846. This spot is identified with the towns history for 150 years. The old Burying-Ground must claim our attention for a few minutes, and then we should give, at least, a half hour to the relics in Memorial Hall of the Town House. Over the arch at the entrance of the hall we read this inscription: Lexington consecrates this hall and its emblems to the memory of the founders and the sustainers of our free institutions. TROLLEY TRIPS. 141 Admission to this collection is free, and among the treasuresare Major Pitcairns pistols, captured on the day of the battle;the tongue of the bell which sounded the alarm when Paul Re-vere rode into Lexington; old flint-lock muskets, etc. In theTown Hall, above stairs, to which access can be had by askingin the Selectmens Room, is Henry Sandhams spirited paintingof the Battle of Lexington. Across the corridor is Library Hall,and the Gary Public Library, fostered by Mrs. Maria Gary. The trip to Concord may now be resumed, though there are. PHOTO BY C. B, WEBSTER & CO, OLD NORTH BRIDGE, CONCORD,still many sites marked by eloquent tablets for those who havetime for a more extended stay. The route lies through Bedford,where may be seen Fitchs Tavern, and many old homesteads. Itis interesting to know that the minute-men marched over the OldBedford Road to Concord, joining the Bedford militia company,which had started from its captains house on that road. AtConcord they helped in the removal of stores to places of greatersafety before the appearance of the kings troops; and joining inthe pursuit of the British on the retreat, had part in the skirmishby Hardys Hill, where their captain fell. 142 GUIDE TO BOSTON. Concord, settled in the autumn of 1635, was the first inlandtown founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was madea shire town as early as 1692, and by the close of its first centuryit had become the important central town of the province. Inpre-Revolutionary ev
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