Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 396
d, for a great distance inland. Itsobject was to alarm the country in case of invasion. Thisbeacon was erected about 1631: —35, the town having orderedit set up on Gentry Hill in this year, with a watch of oneperson, to give the signal on the approach of danger. It wasnewly erected in 1768, having… … BEACON. 350 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. commemorating the events of the Eevolution. Charles BllL-finch was the designer. It was a plain Doric shaft, raised on a pedestal of stone and brick, eightfeet high. The outside was encrustedwith cement; and on the top was alarge gilded eagle of wood, supportingthe…
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