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30. BRATTLE HOUSE.

Now Social Union, Brattle Street.

31. READ FARM.

Now occupied by Dr. Driver, Brattle Street.

32. SITE OF AARON HILL HOUSE.

Now occupied by St. John's Memorial Chapel, Brattle
Street.

33. SITE OF JOHN TALCOTT HOUSE.

S. E. corner Brattle and Ash streets.

34. SITE OF SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE. Brattle Street, near Story Street.

NEAR THIS SPOT
STOOD THE

SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE
AND THE SMITHY

REFERRED TO IN

LONGFELLOW'S POEM

"THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH."

35. COL. HENRY VASSALL HOUSE.

S. E. corner Brattle and Hawthorn streets.

36. JOHN VASSALL HOUSE.

Brattle Street, opposite Longfellow Park.

37. JOSEPH E. WORCESTER HOUSE.

Now occupied by Mrs. Chauncey Smith, Brattle Street.
Third house above Craigie House.

38. SITE OF LECHMERE-SEWALL-RIEDESEL HOUSE.

N. W. corner Brattle Street and Sparks Street (Mr.
William Brewster's).

39. LECHMERE-SEWALL-RIEDESEL HOUSE.

N. W. corner Brattle Street and Riedesel Avenue.

40. LEE HOUSE.

N. E. corner Brattle Street and Kennedy Avenue.

41. RUGGLES-FAYERWEATHER HOUSE.

N. W. corner Brattle Street and Channing Place.

42. ELMWOOD.

Elmwood Avenue, Mt. Auburn and Brattle streets.

BIRTH PLACE OF
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
BUILT IN 1767.

OCCUPIED IN 1774 BY
LIEUT.-GOVERNOR OLIVER
COUNCILLOR TO THE CROWN
AND LATER BY

ELBRIDGE GERRY,

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.

43. SITE OF CAPTAIN THATCHER'S HOUSE.

E. corner Mt. Auburn Street and Coolidge Avenue.

44. BURIAL PLACE OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS.

Mt. Auburn Street, between Elmwood Avenue and Hawthorn
Street.

45. DUDLEY-LOWELL WILLOWS-PALISADES.

Corner Charles River Roadway.

46. WINDMILL LANE.

Ash Street.

47. RADCLIFfe College.

Garden Street, corner Mason Street.

48. WASHINGTON ELM.

Garden Street, corner Mason Street.

UNDER THIS TREE
WASHINGTON

FIRST TOOK COMMAND
OF THE

AMERICAN ARMY

JULY 3D, 1775.

49. SITE OF WHITEFIELD ELM.

Garden Street, nearly opposite Waterhouse Street.

50. DR. BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE HOUSE.

Old house on Waterhouse Street, No. 7.

51. CAMBRIDGE COMMON.

First Camp Ground,

Puritan Monument,

Old Cannon,

Scion of Washington Elm.

Inscription concerning Old Cannon.

THESE GUNS
WERE USED BY THE
CONTINENTAL ARMY
IN THE

SIEGE OF BOSTON

DURING THE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Inscription on Soldiers' Monument.

The Soldiers and Sailors of Cambridge, whose names are here inscribed, died in the service of their country, in the war for the maintenance of the Union.

To perpetuate the memory of their valor and patriotism, this Monument is erected by the City, A. D. 1869-70.

Inscription on Puritan Monument.

(Front.)

JOHN BRIDGE
1578-1665

LEFT BRAINTREE, ESSEX COUNTY ENGLAND, 1631
AS A MEMBER OF REV. MR. HOOKER'S COMPANY
SETTLED HERE 1632

AND STAYED WHEN THAT COMPANY
REMOVED TO THE CONNECTICUT.

HE HAD SUPERVISION OF THE FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL
ESTABLISHED IN CAMBRIDGE 1635

WAS SELECTMAN 1635-1652

DEACON OF THE CHURCH 1636-1658

REPRESENTATIVE TO THE GREAT AND GENERAL COURT 1637-1641
AND WAS APPOINTED BY THAT BODY TO LAY OUT LANDS
IN THIS TOWN AND BEYOND.

(West Side.)

THIS PURITAN

HELPED TO ESTABLISH HERE
CHURCH, SCHOOL

AND REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
AND THUS TO PLANT

A CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH.

(North Side.)

ERECTED

AND GIVEN TO THE CITY
SEPTEMBER 20, 1882

BY

SAMUEL JAMES BRIDGE

OF THE SIXTH GENERATION
FROM JOHN BRIDGE.

(East Side.)

THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD
SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH.

52. CHRIST CHURCH.

Garden Street, near Old Burying Ground.

OLDEST CHURCH BUILDING

IN CAMBRIDGE

BUILT IN 1760

OCCUPIED BY

CONTINENTAL TROOPS

IN 1775.

53. SITE OF MOSES RICHARDSON HOUSE.

Holmes Place, now occupied by Harvard Law School.

HERE ASSEMBLED

ON THE NIGHT OF
JUNE 16TH, 1775

1200 CONTINENTAL TROOPS
UNDER COMMAND OF
GENERAL PRESCOTT

AFTER PRAYER BY
PRESIDENT LANGDON
THEY MARCHED TO
BUNKER HILL.

54. SITE OF HASTINGS-HOLMES HOUSE.

Holmes Place, near Hemenway Gymnasium.

SITE OF THE HEADQUARTERS
OF GENERAL WARD

AND THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY
IN 1775.

BIRTHPLACE OF

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

55. BIRTHPLACE OF COL. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.

7 Kirkland Street.

56. FOXCROFT-DANFORTH HOUSE.

Site.

N. E. corner Kirkland and Oxford streets.

57. JARED SPARKS HOUSE.

Quincy Street, next south of new chapel.

58. HARVARD HALLS.

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College Yard.

OF HOOKER, SHEPARD, LEVERETT, WIGGLESWORTH,
SEWALL, AND APPLETON HOUSES.

Inscription on Boylston Hall, College Yard.

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