Winter Hill Neighborhood Association

 

On Sunday, October 3rd from 11 am - 1 pm, the SHPC will host a FREE walking tour of part of Somerville's Winter Hill Neighborhood!  Led by cultural historian Ed Gordon, the tour will start at the Dunkin Donuts in Magoun Square (504 Broadway) and will wind through the neighborhood before finishing at Winter Hill Brewing Company (328 Broadway).  With both several exterior and interior stops, the tour will explore the architectural history of the storied neighborhood!  For more information, check out the tour flyer here.  Sign ups in advance appreciated, but not required, to bwilson [at] somervillema.gov. 

 

Not sold on the idea of walking?  Check out this piece from WBUR about the terrific benefits of walking for everyone who is able, featuring research undertaken by Shane O’Mara in his recently published book “In Praise of Walking: The New Science of How We Walk and Why It’s Good for Us".   Walking is a great way to get to know and experience our vibrant city, whether by joining our walking tours, participating in our "I Spy Somerville" Challenges, or just exploring on foot for enjoyable exercise!

Mary Sawyer Tyler was the object of the poem Mary Had a Little Lamb. She lived in Somerville throughout her adult life and worked at McLean Hospital, volunteered as an aide during the Civil War, and helped save Boston’s historic Old South Church from demolition. My personal rendition of the poem is “Mary Had a Little Lamb, she came from Somerville, and everywhere that Mary went, she had to climb a hill!”

...When the enemy returned to Bunker's-Hill, and the Provincials to Winter's-Hill, where after intrenching and erecting batteries, they on Monday began to fire upon the Regulars on Bunker's-Hill, and on the ships and floating batteries in the harbour when the Express came away. The number of Provincials killed is between 40 and 70; 140 are wounded, of the Connecticut troops 16 were killed.---No officer among them was either killed or wounded, excepting Lieutenant Grosvenor, who was wounded in the hand. A Colonel, or Lieutenant Colonel of the New-Hampshire forces, is among the dead. It is also said that Doctor Warren is undoubtedly among the slain.

 

The Provincials lost three iron fix-pounders, some intrenching-tools, and a few knapsacks.

 

The number of Regulars which at first attacked the Provincials on Bunker's-Hill was not less than two thousand, the number of the Provincials was only fifteen hundred, who it is supposed would soon have gained a compleat victory, had it not been for the unhappy mistake already mentioned. The regulars were afterwards reinforced with a thousand men. It is uncertain how great a number of the regulars were killed or wounded; but it was supposed by the spectators, who saw the whole action, that there could not be less than four or five hundred killed. Mr. Gardner, who got out of Boston on Sunday evening, says, that there were five hundred men brought into that place the morning before he came out.

 

This account was taken from Elijah Hide, of Lebanon, who was a spectator on Winter's Hill, during the whole action....