Boston Common in Winter

by Anne Sands

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Boston Common in Winter

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Anne Sands

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Photograph of Boston common in Boston, Massachusetts taken on 1/11/19.
The nation’s oldest park, the fifty acres of the Boston Common have belonged to the citizens of Boston since 1634. That’s when each householder paid a minimum of six shillings toward its purchase from William Blackstone, the first European settler in Boston.

The original Common was gently rolling scrubland, sloping gradually from Beacon Hill to the tidal marshes of Back Bay.
The seventeenth-century Common, rough and rural, was well suited as a pasture, its primary purpose. The village herd of seventy milk cows grazed peacefully, watched over by a town-appointed keeper. The Common was also a frequent site for hangings and other forms of execution of murderers, thieves, deserters, pirates, “witches,” Indians, and religious dissenters, especially Quakers.

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January 16th, 2019

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