A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts; (1874) (14769399341)

Identifier: gazetteerofstate00innaso (find matches)
Title: A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts;
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Nason, Elias, 1811-1887. cn
Subjects:
Publisher: Boston, B. B. Russell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center



Text Appearing Before Image:
y south of theMill Dam. Two small ponds, and a very charming artificial reservoir connectedwith the Boston Water-Works, enhance the beauty of the scenery. Thesoil is varied, and the flora quite exuberant. About 300 acres of thetown are still in woodland; and it is said that almost every forest-treeindigenous to the State is here represented. The number of farms is 29, embracing 1,197 acres; of acres inEnglish mowing, 676; of salt-marsh, mown, 69 J; of horses, 480; andof milch-cows, 291. A large part of this delightful town is, however,covered with elegant mansions, with ample grounds and gardens, BROOKLINE. 133 walks and avenues, decorated with ornamental trees, shrubbery, andflowers, and occupied by gentlemen engaged in professional or mercan-tile business in the neighboring city. The streets are kept in excellent condition, and several of the side-walks laid in concrete. Many of them are well shaded. Brookline hasa very large and handsome town-hall, built of granite at an expense of
Text Appearing After Image:
THE HARVARD CHURCH, BROOKLINE. about $150,000, and containing an audience-chamber capable of seating1,200 persons. It has a public-library building of brick, and finishedinteriorly with butternut-wood, which was opened Dec. 2,1857, and con-tains about 15,000 volumes. To it John L. Gardner, the principal donor,gave $10,000. The town has ten public schools — including a high 134 GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. school of the first order, the salary of whose principal is $2,800 — andseven churches. The Harvard church-edifice, erected of stone fromvarious parts of the world at an expense of more than $100,000, isa model of ecclesiastical architecture. It was dedicated May 8, 1873,and is without a pastor. St. Pauls Church is remarkable for its chasteand elegant form and finish. Mr. Upjohn was the architect. The Rev. E. D. Winslow is pastor of the Methodist, the Rev. WilliamLamson, D.D., of the Baptist, and the Eev. Artemas B. Murray ispastor of the Chestnut-hill Unitarian society. The Rev.