Traveling for Work

The Burying Ground in Holliston, Massachusetts

Herein Lie Buried many of the original settlers. The first three ministers, who served 85 years. A number of victims of the great sickness of 1754, during which 53 persons died (1/8th of the population of the town) Captain Eames, early benefactor of the Church, and 5 of his children who died at less than two. Several Civil War soldiers.

I passed through Holliston on my way into Wellesley from Whitinsville. It was cold.

This part of Massachusetts along the Blackstone Canal (1828) was prosperous in the mid-19th Century. Most of the of towns I drove through on the way home were centered around a long defunct textile mill, a white steepled church or two, and a monument to the Union dead. Holliston was out of the river valley and had no mill.