A Page from North Quabbin History: Solomon Willard and the Bunker Hill Monument
Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown. file photo
Bunker Hill Monument. Contributed photo
Petersham birthplace of Solomon Willard. Willard’s birthplace once stood on the southeast corner of North Main Street and Route 101 and was taken down in 1890, Contributed photo/Petersham Historical Society
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The Bunker Hill Monument is well known statewide and nationally. The architect of this 221-foot-tall historical icon was Solomon Willard, a Petersham native. Willard was born and raised in Petersham, attending schools there, according to Christine Mandel of the Petersham Historical Society. Willard’s birthplace once stood on the southeast corner of North Main Street and Route 101 and was taken down in 1890, when the current stone house was built, she continued. This house was one of the houses occupied by Daniel Shays’ men on the night of Feb. 3, 1787 during Shays
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New Book by Local Author Cuts Through the ‘Fog’ of War
There’s no shortage of new revelations for the die-hard Battle of Bunker Hill enthusiast in a new book by Marc Stockwell-Moniz, including an updated death count and some insight into just how crazy – or foggy – the whole battle was on both sides.
Stockwell is a member of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, grew up in Revere, and his mother lived in Charlestown on High Street for nearly 30 years. In addition, he has at least two direct ancestors he found some years ago while in Charlestown that fought in the battle.
In a surprise, Bunker Hill guestbooks from Civil War emerge in auction Brian MacQuarrie © Nathan Klima for The Boston Globe From left, Arthur Hurley, president of the Bunker Hill Monument Association; Julie Hall, president of the Charlestown Historical Society; and Paul Lane, a society board member, at the monument. “They belonged to us,” Hurley said of the guestbooks. “Who knows what happened to them? They should be on exhibit at the Bunker Hill Museum.”
Mary Todd Lincoln, the president’s wife, signed the guestbook during the Civil War. So did Dr. Mary Walker, a Union physician who was the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor. George Arth, a Marine Corps bass player who was in the orchestra at Ford’s Theater the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, also signed.