Coppen Square, a small green at the corner of Bowdoin and Quincy Streets, was originally named Eaton Square after Percival Eaton, whose family kept a tavern there from the time of the American Revolution to the Civil War. Wagoners assembled at the tavern on the eve of the Fortification of Dorchester Heights. Coppen/Eaton Square is also the site of the Lyman Memorial Fountain, commissioned in the 19th century by Nahum Capen in honor of Boston mayor Theodore Lyman, Jr. The fate of the original fountain, which was larger and more ornate than the one that eventually replaced it, remains a mystery.