Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 446
fell to the pavementand was killed. The ground immedi-ately about Liberty Treewas popularly known asLiberty Hall. In August,1767, a flagstaff had beenerected, which wentthrough and extendedabove its highest branches.A flag hoisted upon tliis staff was the signal for the assembhngof the Sons of… … LIBERTY TREE. 398 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. After the old war was over a liberty-pole was erected on thestump of the tree, the latter long serving as a point of directionknown as Liberty Stump. A second pole was placed in posi-tion on the 2d July, 1826. It was intended to have been raisedduring the…
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