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Installed on Boston Common for the city's 300th anniversary in 1930, this bronze relief depicts hermit William Blaxton greeting Governor John Winthrop and the Puritan settlers who in 1634 purchased the land that became America's oldest public park.

A South Boston beach named for the winner of a city swim-club contest, once home to a 1925 bathhouse serving the neighborhood for decades. After water-quality problems forced its closure in the 1990s, a major cleanup restored the beach, and it was also the site of a significant 1975 civil rights gathering for equal access to Boston's public beaches.

A beach in the Squantum section of Quincy, Massachusetts, part of Squaw Rock Park, where a cairn erected in 1895 commemorates Myles Standish's 1621 landing, guided by Tisquantum (Squanto). Originally called Sunny Sands Beach, it was renamed in the 1920s for a prominent local family.

Dedicated in 1887 at the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Broadway, this 42-foot granite column honors 33 Arlington soldiers who died defending the Union, its panels inscribed with the Gettysburg Address and the phrase "Manassas to Appomattox."

A lighthouse on Long Island in Boston Harbor, first lit in 1819 and rebuilt in 1844 as the first cast-iron lighthouse in the United States. It stands near the former site of Fort Dawes, a World War II-era harbor defense and observation post that was later demolished for a water treatment plant.

Built in 1876 to carry the Sudbury Aqueduct's water pipes across the Charles River, this 500-foot, seven-arch masonry bridge was briefly the second-longest of its kind in the country, and visitors standing beneath its arches can still produce a genuine echo over the gorge below.