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Show Spot Forever Famous in American History Boston's famous Beacon hill acquired ac-quired that name in 1634 when King Charles commanded the Massachusetts colony to surrender Its charter and annulled an-nulled all land titles. The whole of New England suddenly found Itself partitioned among a favored few ln the mother country, and the thumb of a royal governor general bore down hard. At the head of a commission holding the powers of life and death over the colonists was an archbishop who had acquired considerable reputation repu-tation as an heresy hunter. The colony was only four years old, but In no uncertain spirit It rebelled and soon after John Endicol's sword had slashed the red cross from the royal ensign at Salem a fort was erected at Castle Island In Boston harbor. iHV-zens iHV-zens drilled earnestly on the common and In the small towns around. As a means of quick communication a ben-con ben-con was erected on the highest emi nence of the capital and thnt hill was named, for as long, probably as America endures. Detroit News. |