Marking Historic Sites.
It is an excellent thing - the present revival of interest in marking by tablet, monument or otherwise, the scènes of important events which occurred hereabouts during the war of the revolution. The latest project of the kind, the erection of a suitable memorial on. Dorchester heights, South Boston, wili commend itself generally. It was on this commanding position - at that time included within the town of Dorchester - that the army of Gen. Washington constructed the earthwork that menaced Boston and compelled the British to evacúate the city. That the entrenchments thrown up under Washington's direction were not carfully preserved is cause for regret, and emphasized the need of erecting a suitable monument to mark the point of vantage, the possession of which by the continentals compelled the redcoats to abandon Boston to the patrioW
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