Watertown Library Photograph Collection - Monuments and Historical Markers

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	Plate mounted in stone wall at “The Old Burying Ground first mentioned in the Records of Town Meeting held July 5, 1642,” on Arlington Street at Mount Auburn Street, money for which was appropriated by the Annual Town Meeting of 1927, the wording and placing being under the Historical Society. Photo by W.W. Carnes.
	Plate mounted in stone wall at Old Burying Place on Arlingotn and Mount Auburn Streets, inscribed, “These walls built by the inhabitants of Watertown in the year 1926 in memory of the forefathers of this Town founded 1630.” Photo by W.W. Carnes.
	Bronze plate set in boulder in Old Burying Place on Arlington Street reads, “To the memory of John Eddy, 1597 – 1684, freeman of Watertown in 1634, first Town Clerk in 1635, selectman in 1636, 1637, 1638, and 1670, member of the Militia and of the First Parish Church, born at Cranbrook, England, son of William Eddye, Vicar of St. Dunstan's Church. He married Amy, daughter of John Doggett of Groton, sailed with his family from London on the ship Handmaid, arriving in Plymouth in 1730. He came to Watertown in 1631 and resided here until his death. Erected by Eddy Family Association, Inc. 1930.” Photo by W.W. Carnes.
	Bronze plate set in granite boulder in the Old Burying Place on Arlington Street, inscribed, “In memory of Simon Stone 1586 – 1665 and Gregory Stone 1592 – 1672 sons of David and Ursula Stone born in Great Bromley, Essex County, England who emigrated to New England in 1635 and settled in Watertown. This memorial is erected by the Stone Family Association in grateful remembrance of these early settlers who in their love of civil and religious liberty left their home and so much that was dear to them in England and by their courage, toil and sacrifice helped to found this Commonwealth.” Photo by W.W. Carnes.
	Monument on grace of Joseph Coolidge in Old Burying Place on Arlington Street, inscribed, “Joseph Coolidge born June 18, 1730 killed in the Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 the only citizen of Watertown who fell on that day. Erected by his descendants and presented to the Town April 19, 1875.” Photo by W.W. Carnes.
	Granite slab voted by Town Meeting of 1906 providing $50 to be erected under the direction of the Historical Society on private property in the retaining wall at the edge of the sidewalk on Hillside Road, inscribed, “Site of the Meeting House 1636-1725, Pastors George Phillips to 1644; John Knowles, 1650; John Sherman 1686; John Bailey, Thomas Bailey, 1692; Henry Gibbs, 1723. Here the Town meetings were held.” Photo by W.W. Carnes.
	Granite marker, authorized by vote of Town Meeting of 1900, inscribed “Site of the Paul Revere House,” where stood the John Cook house in which Paul Revere lived in 1775 and 1776. Paul Revere engraved and printed the notes for the Provincial Congress in Watertown during this period, probably in a building on the opposite side of the Charles River. Erected in 1902. Photo by W.W. Carnes.
	View of reverse side of granite slab erected in 1902 in front of former location of the John Cook house on Watertown Street, inscribed, “Paul Revere in a house standing on this lot made the Colonial notes ordered by the Provincial Congress of 1775.” Photo by W.W. Carnes.
	Monument erected at corner of Marshall and Mount Auburn Streets, voted by the Town in 1887, inscribed, “Here the Honorable Council met while the Assembly sat in the Meeting House near-by, 1775-1776.” The stone had previously been marked, “This stone marks the site of the dwelling house [the Marshall Spring Fowle House] in which Gen. Warren slept the night before the Battle of Bunker Hill,” and was recut at the request of the Historical Society when it became known that General Warren had spent the night on June 16, 1775 in the Hunt House on Galen Street in the company of Elbridge Gerry. The house is now known as the Edmund Fowle House, after Marshall Spring Fowle's ancestor who built it circa 1740. Photo by W.W. Carnes.
	Bronze plaque on the Fowle House on Marshall Street, where Marshall Fowle was born and lived all his life, inscribed, “The Fowler House. During the Bristish occupation of Boston, the seat of government of Massachusetts was in Watertown. In this house met committees of the Second and Third Provincial Congresses from April 22, 1775 to July 19, 1775 and the Executive Council from July 19, 1775 to September 16, 1776.” The house was owned by descendants of Edmund Fowle until it was purchased in 1871 by the architect Charles Brigham, who, with his partner Sturgis moved the house onto Marshall Street, which he had laid out, dividing the balance of the 3 ½ acres into building lots. In 1922 it was purchased by the Historical Society of Watertown and became its home. Photo by W.W. Carnes.
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