Tremont Street and Boylston Street

Abdalian, Leon H., 1884-1967 · [June 30, 1920]

Boston Common, Tremont St., Boston, Mass. Boston Common, the tract of land, containing nearly fifty acres, was bought in1634 by Governor Winthrop, and others from William Blackstone, who held his title by a right of possession gained prior to the settlement of Boston in 1630, and was set apart for common use as a cow pasture and training field. "Frog Pond." Soldiers Monument crowns Flagstaff Hill, where British artillery was stationed during the siege of Boston when troops were quartered and entrenched there from what is now Park Square, the British embarked for Lexington and Concord, April 18, 1775. On the Common, the British mustered before Bunker Hill. Here mustered contingents for the Colonial expeditions against Louisbury and Quebec. Here many Massachusetts regiments assembled prior to going to the front in the Civil War. On Beacon Street Mall opposite State House, stands the Shaw Monument, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a memorial to Col. Robert G. Shaw and the fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment.