166 History of H Ingham. 



Rocks, lies Black Rock, a long, jagged, wave-worn mass, a few 

 hundred feet off shore. At the west end of this beach (a pebbly 

 isthmus, joining Cohasset to Greenhill in the precincts of Hull) 

 begins Strait's Pond, a beautiful sheet of salt water lying along 

 the westerly part of Jerusalem Road, and between it and the 

 beaches of Hull north of it. After passing through a rocky gorge 

 bordered by misshapen savins, we come upon a low, long, an- 

 cient, one-story house on the left of the road, which is one of the 

 oldest buildings in Cohasset. It belonged to a branch of the Lin- 

 coln family, and was built in 1709, having been originally con- 

 structed on Greenhill, in Hull, and moved across the ice of Strait's 

 Pond in winter. The roadway formerly lay on the south side 

 of it. 



As the neighborhood is being rapidly overrun by fashion, which 

 cares nothing for old landmarks, this house will probably disap- 

 pear very soon, to make way for modern " improvements." 



In the next hollow Rattlesnake Run, on its way from Great 

 Swamp, crosses under the road to empty into Strait's Pond. In 

 the pretty canal, flowing among trees and shrubs in the private 

 grounds on the south side of the road, one would fail to recognize 

 the old run as it was before its metamorphosis. 



Beyond this point the road bends round a steep, rocky ledge on 

 the south side. This is Joy's Rocks, and the bend was the old 

 Joy's Corner, — an angle of the Second Division. 



Folsom's Island (originally Jones Island) is in Strait's Pond, 

 near Nantasket Neck. 



The Jerusalem Road continues along the border of Strait's 

 Pond until it ends at Hull Street, on the Hingham line. 



Turning to the left, Hull Street (which here divides Hingham 

 from Cohasset ; the east side being Cohasset, the west Hingham) 

 leads in a generally southerly direction, crossing Turkey-Hill 

 Run at the foot of the first slight rise. Nearly half a mile fur- 

 ther on, after going up a hill and winding somewhat to the left, 

 Lambert's Lane, or Breadencheese Tree Lane, is found oppo- 

 site Canterbury Street, in Hingham, and leading in an easterly 

 direction into Cohasset woodlands. It soon crosses Turkey-Hill 

 Run, and at the spot where it intersects the western boundary 

 line of the Second Division, stood, in 1670, the celebrated Bread- 

 encheese Tree. The surveyors, who laid out the First, Second, 

 and Third Divisions at that time, were evidently of a waggish 

 turn of mind, and chose to name certain points or angles from 

 which they " took their bearings " according to the composition 

 of the lunch which they had for the day. Thus the northeasterly 

 angle of the First Division they named Pie Corner. 



When they arrived under a certain large tree, they sat down 

 and ate their bread and cheese ; and Bread-and-Cheese Tree, or 

 Breadencheese Tree, became a landmark from that hour on, 

 through these last two centuries and more. 



The Maypole was a tree at an angle a short distance southwest 



