This marker on Beale Street in Wollaston, marks the home of one of America's first feminists, Anne Hutchinson. She has been honored by placement of a statue of her located outside the State House in Boston.
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This marker reads: "This and the neighboring Wollaston Hills were part of the original grant of 600 acres made by the town of Boston to William Hutchinson in 1636-7. His house stood near this spot: And to it came his wife, Anne Hutchinson. On the seventeenth of April, 1638, when exiled from Massachusetts by the general court of the colony, and here she tarried for a brief space while on her way to Rhode Island. This tablet placed A.D. 1894."
2 comments:
How interesting. Thanks for sharing. I love reading bits of history from other places.
Beautiful tie-in with Clueless' post! That marker has been around a while.
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