[ 28 ] Bound Brook Island School

This memorial was erected in 1924 by Dr. Nehemiah Somes Hopkins. Born in 1860, he attended the one-room Island School with his three brothers, a half-brother, a half-sister Martha, and their friend, Lorenzo Dow Baker, who later married Martha. After medical school Dr Hopkins established an eye surgery practice in Oswego, New York, which he left to go to China in 1889. He and his wife, Fannie Blanchard Higgins, also from Wellfleet, went to serve in the Methodist Mission in China. In Peking he founded, in memory of his brother, The John L. Hopkins Memorial Eye Hospital, the first Western hospital built in China.

Dr. Hopkins dedicated fifty-eight years of his long life to medical missionary service in China, the last two years with his daughter, Helen, in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II.

He died at the age of ninety-three and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in May 1953.

Continue .3 of a mile beyond Atwood Higgins House to where “Kering Turpin” sign marks right turn-off; on left follow path about 100 feet uphill.