190 - History of Hingham. 



above all other buildings, and embowered in fine trees, it is too 

 well known to need description here. In simple, homely grand- 

 eur it towers there, a century older than the republic itself. If it 

 could speak so as to be heard by mortal ears, what might it not 

 reveal of the dead and of the living, of the story of the past! But 

 to those who love Hingham and her history, it has a thousand 

 tongues which are never silent. 



Main Street, as far as Pear-Tree Hill, which is the steep 

 bluff at the beginning of the Lower Plain, was, in the earliest 

 times, known as Bachelor's Rowe, or Bachelor Street. 



The salt marshes east of the road, below Pear-Tree Hill, are the 

 Home Meadows. 



Having surmounted Pear-Tree Hill, we are upon the Lower 

 Plain, which is a tract of mainly level country extending south as 

 far as Tower's Bridge, on Main Street. But we will leave this 

 street and take Leavitt Street eastward. A large, low building 

 on the corner, under a noble buttonwood-trce, was, in former days, 

 Lewis's Inn. The large, old-fashioned building east of it was 

 once the old Almshouse. 



Leaving the Agricultural Hall upon the left, we soon come to 

 Weir River, here crossed by Leavitt's Bridge. A short distance 

 further on, a wav is reached winding off to the riirht and south, 



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which is Pope's Lane, or Pope's Hole. At the first turn on this 

 lane are the Clump Bars, known also to the boys of past genera- 

 tions as Plumb Bars. This is evidently a corruption, as they de- 

 rived the name from being, in former times, near a clump of trees 

 when there were but few trees in the vicinity. The country there- 

 abouts had not then grown up to woodlands, but was devoted to 

 tillage or pasturage. Between this lane and Weir River lies 

 Rocky Meadow. Turning to the eastward, the way leads into 

 thick woods, in a rocky, rolling country, and among these, on the 

 right side of the lane, is the wild and romantic ledge known as 

 Indian Rock. 



Nearly opposite this rock is Chubbuck's Well, and the cellar 

 of Chubbuck's House, which house itself was demolished in 1759. 

 This old well, now filled to the brim with leaves and debris, yet 

 shows the carefully built wall, as good now as when constructed 

 by Thomas Chubbuck, who was an early settler in 1634. 



Further down the lane there is a rocky place in the woods 

 called The Hogpen. 



The lane, turning westward, crosses Trip-Hammer Pond by a 

 causeway. This pond is formed by Weir River, which flows 

 through it. There were formerly iron works here, with a trip- 

 hammer, and also a shingle factory. 



Returning to Leavitt Street (the part of which leading into 

 Third Division Woods was the old Third Division Lane) we 

 will stop to look into James Lane, now so overgrown with woods 

 that it cannot be distinguished, except by its location, from other 

 cartways into the forest. It leads to James Hill, in Cohassct. 



