Springfield Memories

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Excerpt from Springfield Memories: Odds and Ends of Anecdote and Early Doings, Gathered From Manuscripts, Pamphlets, and Aged ResidentsH. 86 J. Brewer's drug store, was an elm, used also for a whipping-post. The late Daniel Lombard used to tell how he pitied the unfortunates whom he saw stripped, and publicly flogged there. Back of the present old Town hall on State street, was a new brick school-house, costing £117. Across the way, eighteen feet north Of the large elm on the Common, rose the famous tavern of Zenas Parsons, which had a fearfully high\ wing on Main street (when afterward detached dubbed the Light and barns and Sheds along Meet in g-house lane, (elm street). Beyond the sheds, stand ing partly on Elm street, and partly on the south-west corner of the present Court Square, stood the church, holding on the finger of its steeple the same golden rooster that today wags his thin tail in all weathers. The ground back to the river was Open pasture and meadow land. There was a pair of bars across Meet ing-house lane by the church, and, at a later day, and presumedly at this time, passers leaving the bars down were fined. This lane led through the burying ground and adjoining training field to the middle landing. It wasn't an accident that the latter field was SO near the grave-stones. Training was a sacred duty, always Opened with prayer, and continued to the beat of the same drum that called them to Sab bath service. Along the river bank was a path pro tected by a town law, each fence having a gate with a post set in the middle, to check the cattle.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.