VIEW OF POINT ALDERTON (AKA: ALLERTON) WATERCOLOR, 1853
POINT ALDERTON, BOSTON HARBOR ENGRAVING, 1854
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Inscription reads: Point Alderton Entrance to Boston Harbour J.R. Wharton August 9, 1853
Caption reads: This is a high bluff or point of land, situated at the outermost part of Boston Harbor, about nine miles from the city. The lighthouse seen in our picture is the Boston outer light, and between it and Point Alderton is the entrance to the harbor. The land to the left slopes till it forms Nantasket Beach. The high cliff behind the lighthouse is part of the Great Brewster. Point Alderton is a high cliff, nearly perpendicular, the summit of which affords pasturage for sheep and cows.
View from the base of Allerton Hill, looking up Beacon Road from the vantage point of Nantasket Avenue near the XYZ streets. The building, bottom right, is a train station-- one of the stops on the rail that once ran the length of Hull down to Pemberton Point.
ALLERTON HILL, EARLY 1900's
Greetings from Allerton Hill !
The Point Allerton Association
A time-honored tradition. The PAA cocktail party circa 1950's.
Can any of you PAA old-timers identify this crew?
Was a time when a beacon off the tip of Point Allerton warned mariners away from our shores. The Allerton Beacon was reportedly destroyed in the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 -- a storm with sustained winds of 121 mph that destroyed property up and down the seaboard and sent a fifty foot wave crashing into Gloucester.
THE ALLERTON BEACON
If you have old photos, etc. of Allerton Hill, please share them with your neighbors. Let us know @pointallerton.org
Fourth of July Salute: There was a time when the flag was raised and rifles were fired in tribute. Perhaps we need to bring the 21 gun salute (or was it 20?) back to Allerton Hill.
Through the Years