On this hill the Puritans in Roxbury built their first meetinghouse in 1632. The hill was named in 1848 for Reverend John Eliot (1604-1690), the second minister of the First Church in Roxbury. Eliot, known as the ‘Apostle to the Indians’, with the . . . — — Map (db m295839) HM
In 1915, in the waning light of whaling's final decade, Emily Howland Bourne financed the construction of a museum building to honor her whaling merchant father, Jonathan Bourne, Jr. This marked the first steadfast effort to preserve New . . . — — Map (db m86657) HM
In memory of Ben Simon the last male of the Native Indians of Middleboro. He was a Revolutionary Soldier and died in May 1831 aged 80 years. — — Map (db m303327) HM WM
