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Boston Sights

Great Elm Site

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  • Address
    • Boston Common
  • Transport
    • Park St

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Lonely Planet review for Great Elm Site

The trees that occupy this site are probably descendents of the Old Elm that stood here for more than 200 years. History has it that Ann Hibbens was hanged on the branch of the elm tree for witchery in 1656, and Mary Dyer for religious heresy in 1660. Boston’s ‘oldest inhabitant’ was damaged in 1869 in a brutal storm that reportedly took down the spires of many churches, and destroyed for good by another storm in 1876.

 

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