Excerpt from Lexington and Concord: Its Literary and Historic Shrines
Our Historic Pilgrimage to Lexington and Concord begins at Park Square, near the identical spot from which the British troops embarked in boats, rowed across the Charles river to the Cambridge side, and started on their expedition to Lexington and Concord, on the 18th of April, in the year 1775.
On the right is the Boston Public Garden, a tract of land comprising 24 1/4 acres, set aside by an act of the Legislature in 1859. It has been kept under a perfect state of cultivation and is a wonderful example of horticultural development. In the centre of the garden is an artificial pond and spanning the pond is the famous "Bridge of Size."
In the garden are many pieces of statuary. On the right is the statue of Wendell Phillips, the great abolitionist, designed by French. Next on the right is that of Col. Thomas Cass, the work of Richard Brooks, Col. Cass commanded the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry, and fell at Malvern Hill, Va., in 1862.
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