Symbol of a nation's efforts to obtain freedom and equality for it's [sic] people
The John Brown Bell
owned, and placed here, John A. Rawlins Building Association, acting in behalf of Akroyd Houde Post 132, the American legion, with the . . . — — Map (db m155034) HM
Front Panel Ernest D Marshall • Willis H Page • John O Cole • Louis Sasseville • William S Wadden • Timothy E McGee • Ernest A Carpenter • Arhur B Hersey • Cornelius J Donahue • Joseph North • George Lynch • Herbert H Chase They died . . . — — Map (db m66598) WM
The first tavern was erected on this site by Lieutenant Abraham Williams in 1665. Destroyed by Indians in 1676, it was promptly rebuilt and managed by the Williams Family until 1829. Here the early Circuit Courts convened, stage coaches changed . . . — — Map (db m48023) HM
[Left tablet]
Settlers were reported “upon Mysticke” in 1629. A larger group in 1630 settled near the square and named the place “Meadford”. The first recorded town meeting was held in 1674. In 1676 the first selectmen were elected and in . . . — — Map (db m198140) HM
In 1844 Lydia Maria Child (1802 – 1880) wrote of her childhood visits to her grandfather’s house at 114 South Street in the poem “Over the River and Through the Woods” from her home at the corner of Ashland and Salem Streets.
. . . — — Map (db m52242) HM
On this site stood the Simpson Tavern, where in 1850 James Pierpont (1822–1893) wrote the song “Jingle Bells” in the presence of Mrs. Otis
Waterman, who later verified that the song was written here. Pierpont had the song . . . — — Map (db m50861) HM
On the night of April 18-19, 1775, on his famous ride to Lexington, Paul Revere tethered his horse here and awakened Captain Hall of the Medford Minute Men to tell him that "The Regulars are out." — — Map (db m82651) HM
Celebrating David McGillivray's 3,452-mile run in 1978 from Medford, Oregon to Medford, Mass. to benefit the Jimmy Fund.
"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." - Dave McGillivray
Dedicated by Mayor . . . — — Map (db m244427) HM
At this location, local Medford brothers Bill and Tony Hanley established a pioneering sound company.
Innovations in speaker, amplification, microphone, and sound system design were born
here Powerful, high-quality sound reinforcement systems . . . — — Map (db m222226) HM
To the memory of revolutionary soldiers from Massachusetts and New Hampshire who lie in this burying ground in unmarked graves. Dedicated April 19, 1930 In Medford's Tercentenary year. — — Map (db m245270) HM WM
This circle is dedicated to the memory of Private Roy. V. Molyneaux 30th Division, U.S. Army
Who gallantly fought and gave his life for his country on the battlefield of France July 16th 1944
His deeds will be forever remembered by the . . . — — Map (db m73851) WM
This bell is an integral part of the history of Medford. It was cast in 1860 by Henry N. Hooper Company of Boston with a 44 inch diameter, 1,700 lbs. weight, in F Sharp.
The bell was constructed for the presidential campaign of the . . . — — Map (db m102591) HM
Mansion built by Isaac Royall who came here from Antigua with his slaves in 1737. His son Isaac Royall, a loyalist, founded at Harvard the oldest law professorship in the United States. Headquarters of General John Stark during the Siege of Boston. — — Map (db m50420) HM
This plaque has been placed in memory of Elizabeth Short, the victim of one of the nation's most infamous and unsolved crimes.
"Betty" Short was born on July 29, 1924 and lived at 115 Salem Street, the site now occupied by the Interstate #93 . . . — — Map (db m222253) HM
The original portion of the Royall House appears to have been a farmhouse constructed in 1637 by Governor Winthrop as part of his "Ten Hills Farm." New Hampshire Lt. Governor John Usher enlarged the house and lived in it from 1692 until 1726. . . . — — Map (db m245594) HM
Known for many years as the Cradock House because it was thought to have been built in 1634 for Matthew Cradock, the construction of the house is now attributed to Peter Tufts. Although the exact date of its origin is obscure, it is known to . . . — — Map (db m55620) HM
In Commemoration of
Captain Isaac Hall
1739 - 1789
Commander Medford Minute Men
Lexington - Concord alarm
April 19, 1775
A businessman and resident of Medford.
Presented on January 24, 1977
Medford Company of Minutemen . . . — — Map (db m245266) HM WM
This property, which is listed in the State and National Register of Historic Places, has received a matching grant from the Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund through the Massachusetts Historical Commission, Secretary of the Commonwealth . . . — — Map (db m245265) HM
This monument has been
erected by the
Gravity Research Foundation
Robert W. Babson, Founder
It is to remind students of the blessings forthcoming when a semi-insulator is discovered in order to harness gravity as a free power and reduce . . . — — Map (db m243159) HM
This elegantly detailed Victorian Gothic building is the seventh meeting house of Natick's first Church established in 1651 by John Eliot. The church moved to this location at the geographic center of town in 1799 from the original settlement in . . . — — Map (db m218969) HM
On this site John Eliot helped his Indian converts to build their first meetinghouse in 1651, with a "prophet's chamber" where he lodged on his fortnightly visits to preach to them in their language. His disciple Daniel Takawambait succeeded to the . . . — — Map (db m48806) HM
The Tackawanbait Lodge, named after Natick's only Native American ordained minister, who continued John Eliot's mission to the 'Praying Indians' was housed in the top floors of this building. It represents the Odd Fellows' history in Natick since . . . — — Map (db m218975) HM
This property, which is listed on the National Register of Historical Places, has received a matching grant from the Massachusetts Preservation Project Fund through the Massachusetts Historical Commission, Secretary of the Commonwealth, William . . . — — Map (db m244808) HM
The original meetinghouse of the First Church in Newton was built in this burying ground in 1660. The first pastor was John Eliot, Jr., son of the Apostle to the Indians. — — Map (db m48820) HM
One-eighth of a mile to "the
simple home of an ordinary man,
not wealthy, not particularly
distinguished, but a type of the
God-fearing yeomanry .... as
Ephraim Parker left it, it
remains today an unchanged
relic in the midst of a . . . — — Map (db m48840) HM
It is believed that four trees, two ash and two sycamore, were set out in 1780 by Joseph Dowse at the end of the Revolutionary War. Several generations later, one ash and one sycamore, were blown down in the hurricane of 1938. Charles Arthur Dowse . . . — — Map (db m219198) HM
The house of the first minister of Shirley, Phinehas Whitney. Dorothy Quincy and Madam Lydia Hancock visited here; and here also in 1773 came John Hancock to accompany them home. Moved to this site in 1906 it became the Rectory of St. Anthony's . . . — — Map (db m48809) HM
Built before 1747 and kept from 1758 to 1790 by Obadiah Sawtell, "the old landlord." He was a delegate to the Provincial Congress. Here the men gathered at the alarm on April 19, 1775. — — Map (db m48815) HM
George Dilboy, Private First Class, United States Army, Recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor-Born 1896, of Greek Parentage, in Alatsata, Asia Minor, near the city of Smyrna. Enlisted 19 June 1916, Company H, 103rd Infantry, 26th Infantry . . . — — Map (db m108941) WM
This stone windmill built by John Mallet about 1703 was sold to the Province for a gun powder magazine in 1747. Rifled by General Gage of the Colony's powder on I September 1774, it became a magazine of the American Army in 1775-76. — — Map (db m48827) HM
Central Hill Park is Somerville's first and oldest public park. Established in 1870, Central Hill Playground was constructed within the park to serve children and families citywide. Renovated in 2021 with funding from the Community Preservation Act . . . — — Map (db m243056) HM
Gen. Putnam set up the French Redoubt after retreating from Bunker Hill. Along with others, the French Redoubt successfully held out against British advances and became a strategic fortification extended from what is not the back of the high . . . — — Map (db m243057) HM
"Ploughed Hill"
Fortified and bombarded in 1775-76
Site of Ursuline Convent
Founded 1820 and opened 1826
Burned 1834. Hill dug down 1875 to 1897
Erected by Mt. Benedict Council No. 75 — — Map (db m243062) HM
Near this spot on April 17th, 1832, Jonathan W. Niles unearthed the first complete Anchisaurus skeleton. Niles, an employee of the Milk Row Bleachery, found the discovery while working to fill the Miller's River marsh (which now is the stretch of . . . — — Map (db m243066) HM
Before the arrival of Riverside Community Care in 2019, the building at 117 Summer Street was once The Somerville Home, a private, nonprofit organization offering long-term residential care to seniors from Somerville and surrounding towns. . . . — — Map (db m243069) HM
James A. Logan
First Lieutenant, Air Corps
Army of the United States
Born 22 April 1921
Killed in action over Bellay-sur-Some, France
8 July 1944
Citations
Distinguished Flying Cross Air Medal Purple Heart
Excerpt from . . . — — Map (db m244383) HM WM
Edward L. Leathers. Private First Class, United States Army, Reconnaissance Company, 67th Armored Regiment, Word War II.
Edward L. Leathers was born on November 13, 1924, and lived at 7 Jasper Street in Somerville. He left high school to join . . . — — Map (db m243060) WM
Somerville was once an open rural area. Since the American Revolution, the area has experienced steady growth. In 1895, Charles E. Gilman, a major landowner in the area, established his estate at the location of this park.
In 1971 the Kemp . . . — — Map (db m243059) HM
One-Eighth of a mile north is the site of the Haynes Garrison House the home of Deacon John Haynes. Here the settlers by their brave defense saved the town when King Philip and his Indian warriors attacked Sudbury in April, 1676. — — Map (db m144281) HM
To the left is the site of Hop Brook Mill, erected in 1659 by virtue of a town grant to Thomas and Peter Noyes, "to build and maintain a mill to grind the corn of the settlers." It is now the property of Henry Ford. — — Map (db m48812) HM
Settled 1638 by a company of Puritans who arrived in the ship "Confidence" and were attracted by the meadows on the Musketaquid River. Named after Sudbury in Suffolk. — — Map (db m48028) HM
One-quarter mile north took place the Sudbury Fight with King Philip's Indians on April 21, 1676. Captain Samuel Wadsworth fell with twenty-eight of his men; their monument stands in the burying ground. — — Map (db m48811) HM
Portion of the Goodenow Garrison
House in which the settlers took
refuge from King Philip's Indians
during the battle of April 18-21,
1676. — — Map (db m48813) HM
This mansion was built in 1675 by Colonel Jonathan Tyng for whom this town was named. It was the northerly outpost to the garrison house which stood a quarter-mile down stream opposite Wicassee Falls and Island where the Pawtucket Indians were . . . — — Map (db m48835) HM
A Quincentennial Commemorative to Christopher Columbus
The European discoverer of the New World in 1492
Commissioned "The Admiral of the Ocean Sea"
An Italian Renaissance sailor whose great imagination, courage and navigational skills led to . . . — — Map (db m179145) HM
City of Waltham Centennial Memorial
1884 — 1984
Waltham Elected Officials – 1984
Mayor
Arthur J. Clark
Councillors-at-Large
Joseph J. Alessandro · John M. Duffy · Thomas R. Ferrick · Paul W. Giunta · James E. Regan · . . . — — Map (db m179146) HM
Through this place passed General Henry Knox in the winter of 1775 – 1776 to deliver to General George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston. Erected by the . . . — — Map (db m18119) HM
(north face)
Commissioned Major General of US Volunteers MDCCCLXI
Command of Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac
Command of the Defences of Washington
Command of the Department of the Gulf
(south face)
Speaker Massachusetts . . . — — Map (db m179165) HM WM
This mall dedicated in honor of the men and women of this community who served our country in all wars thus preserving our freedom and our way of life
Erected by the City of Waltham 1973 — — Map (db m179141) HM
In grateful remembrance of Waltham men and men who served for Waltham in the Revolutionary War.
( 293 names are listed )
Sponsored by the Dorothy Brewer Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Erected A.D. 1940 by the City of . . . — — Map (db m179187) WM
(northern face)
To the Nation's Defenders
Francis H. Priest • Nahum Rand • F.P.H. Rogers • James Roony • Horace Sanderson • Samuel G. Savage • Robert C. Sherman • Simeon Smith • William A. Smith • Thomas E. Stickney • George G. . . . — — Map (db m179177) WM
On this site stood the Roberts Paper Mill, a prominent example of a thriving industry in Waltham in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
One can see the prosperity that the mills generated by visiting Gore Place,
Main Street in . . . — — Map (db m222225) HM
Served Metropolitan State Hospital and the Fernald School
Burials from 1947 to 1970 - c. 310 burials
C on the tombstones indicates Catholic Burials (right side of cemetary from Carriage Rd.)
P on the tombstones indicates Protestant . . . — — Map (db m244496) HM
Grove Hill Cemetery is the resting place for the family gravesite of Congressman, Mass. Governor, and Civil War General Nathaniel P. Banks.
The Hiram and Gardner Banks Family gravesites are nearby. There are also more than 100 other Civil War . . . — — Map (db m244983) HM
Through this place passed General Henry Knox in the winter of 1775 – 1776 to deliver to General George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston. Erected by the . . . — — Map (db m18116) HM
Here
stood the Meeting House
in which met
The Provincial Congress
from April 22 to July 19, 1775.
Here
the Great and General Court
or Assembly
was Organized and held its
Sessions from July 19, 1775
to Nov. 9, 1776
and from June . . . — — Map (db m244498) HM
HERE LANDED ROGER CLAP AND THE DORCHESTER MEN JUNE 1630
We went up the Charles River, until the river grew narrow and shallow, and there we landed our goods with much labor and toil, the bank being steep; and night coming on, we were informed . . . — — Map (db m43363) HM
On this site stood the Shick house and farm. Jacob and Mary Shick were two of the first Jewish settlers in Watertown, becoming an integral part of the ethnic and religious diversity that marks its history. The Shicks made their home here for nearly . . . — — Map (db m201382) HM
Settled by Puritans in 1630 under the leadership of Sir Richard Saltonstall and the Rev. George Phillips who stood firmly for religious toleration and the right of the people to a representative government. — — Map (db m48029) HM
Settled by Puritans in 1630 under the leadership of Sir Richard Saltonstall and the Rev. George Phillips who stood firmly for religious toleration and the right of the people to a representative government. — — Map (db m48030) HM
Through this place passed General Henry Knox in the winter of 1775 – 1776 to deliver to General George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston. Erected by the . . . — — Map (db m18124) HM
This gazebo houses the second bell that hung above Westford Academy, the building
now known as the Roudenbush Community Center. The Trustees desired a larger bell,
so this was to replace the original. The first, cast by Paul Revere, is currently . . . — — Map (db m220721) HM
A Tribute to
Colonel John Robinson
1738 - 1805
Westford Citizen and Patriot
In 1775 he distinguished himself by commanding the corps of soldiers who first opposed the menacing attempts of the British troops at Concord Bridge. April 19 1775 . . . — — Map (db m220728) HM
This Memorial Battle Drum is dedicated to those Minutemen and Militia of Middlesex County who opposed the British Regulars on the historic site at the North Bridge in Concord Massachusetts April 19, 1775. Maj John Buttrick of Concord, Lt. Col. . . . — — Map (db m230365) WM
Prince Henry, First Sinclair of Orkney, Born in Scotland, made a voyage of discovery to North America in 1398. After wintering in Nova Scotia, he sailed to Massachusetts and on an inland expedition in 1399 to Prospect Hill to view the surrounding . . . — — Map (db m230425) HM
This marks the rear foundation of the
original Westford Academy, founded
1792, building completed in 1794, in
use through 1897, moved to 2 Boston
Road in 1907.
Landscape excavated June 3, 2017 by Elliot Coleman and
Troop 195. Eagle Scout . . . — — Map (db m220725) HM
Over the years thousands of people have come to Westford to view the Westford Knight" carving. As early as the 1870s historians wondered about the mysterious markings on this rock ledge, theorizing the carving was the work of a long-forgotten . . . — — Map (db m220726) HM
Westford Center Historic District
Town of Westford, Massachusetts Historic Marker
Construction of Westford's first meetinghouse was begun on this site in 1724. The Reveren! Willard Hall
was called as the first minister in 1727. On . . . — — Map (db m220718) HM
Trophy from Morro Castle
at the entrance of
Santiago Harbor, Cuba
taken July 17, 1898.
Loaned as an object lesson
to the rising generation of
the valor of American soldiers
dedicated June 23, 1899. — — Map (db m220730) WM
Westford Center Historic District
Town of Westford, Massachusetts Historic Marker
Built in 1897, this was the second Westford Academy building, a private academy. The Town paid tuition for Westford students to also attend. In 1928, the . . . — — Map (db m220715) HM
Town of Westford, Massachusetts Historic Marker
Westford Academy was founded in 1792 and this
building was erected opposite the west end of
Westford Common in 1794. The original granite
step was placed in 1942 to mark the original . . . — — Map (db m220719) HM
Westford Center Historic District
Town of Westford, Massachusetts Historic Marker
Westford Academy was founded in 1792 and this building was erected opposite the west end of Westford Common
in 1794. The original granite step was placed . . . — — Map (db m220720) HM
Westford Center Historic District
Town of Westford, Massachusetts Historic Marker
From 1794-1897, Westford Academy was
located here. It had a classroom on each
floor. The second Westford Academy
building, now the Roudenbush . . . — — Map (db m220724) HM
1861 - 1865
Tribute to Westford
Volunteers
"Who knew no glory but
their Country's good"
Presented by Edwin D. Metcalf of Auburn, N.Y. son of Lieut. William Metcalf — — Map (db m220727) WM
Dedicated on September 11, 2013, this monument is a permanent
memorial to all 92 Massachusetts Heroes, including two of our
own, taken from us in the terrorist attacks on our nation that
fateful day. May it serve as a symbol of hope, freedom and . . . — — Map (db m220717) HM
Westford Center Historic District
Town of Westford, Massachusetts Historic Marker
This Town House was erected in 1870. In 1880 the building was renovated and expanded under the direction of architect Charles T. Emerson of Lawrence, MA . . . — — Map (db m220716) HM
Vietnam Vets When your country called, you came. When your country refused you honor, you remained silent with time. Our nation's wounds healed. We have finally come to appreciate your sacrifices. In honor of all those from Westford who served . . . — — Map (db m228262) WM
