Report of Hearing Before the Committee on Cities, March 8, 1907 on the Bill, Senate 189 To Preserve the Old State House as an Historic and Patriotic Memorial, and to Prohibit Its Use for Any Other Purpose (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Report of Hearing Before the Committee on Cities, March 8, 1907 on the Bill, Senate 189: To Preserve the Old State House as an Historic and Patriotic Memorial, and to Prohibit Its Use for Any Other Purpose

From its tower, Gage and Howe, the British commanders, watched the first American army under Washington eucom passing the town, beheld the batteries thrown up in a Single night on Dorchester Heights, now marked by the white monu ment on the apex of South Boston, and bitterly realized the necessity of surrendering town and harbor, and sailing away with troops and refugees and last vestiges of British rule, never to return.

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