Within the limits given, it is impossible to review all of the homes and
characters which have left their impress on our village and made it
worthy to be a part of the admitted "Athens of America." A long line of
names comes at memory's call in the various walks of life, -- clergymen,
authors, teachers, physicians, lawyers, and merchants, men and women whom
we delight to honor.

"They hurry from out the forgotten past,
Through the gathered mist of years,
From the halls of memory, dim and vast,
Where they have buried lain in the shadows cast
By recent joys or fears."

More than three hundred years ago the poet Drummond wrote: "It is a great
spur to virtue to look back on the worth of our line. In this is the
memory of the dead preserved with the living, being more firm and
honorable that an epitaph, and the living know that band that tieth them
to others."

Footnotes

The Jamaica Plain Aqueduct Company was incorporated in 1795, and was
the first systematic water system that the city of Boston had. It
extended from the Pond to Fort Hill, and had about forty-five miles of
pipes, made of white pine logs, nearly a foot and one half in diameter,
with a bore of five and three quarters inches. The average daily supply
was about 400,000 gallons. In excavating for the Subway, several
specimens of the old wooden pipes have been unearthed in a good state of
preservation.--From a recent number of the Boston Transcript. The