Image: By trolley through eastern New England (1904) (14589850580)

Description: Identifier: bytrolleythrough1904derr (find matches) Title: By trolley through eastern New England Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Derrah, Robert H., comp Subjects: New England -- Description and travel Guidebooks Publisher: Boston, Mass. Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: g Rockland the car, crossing the steam rail-road tracks, runs through groves and fields into Whitman, a busy shoe manufacturing place, fromwhich lines run to Brockton and the Bridgewaters, con-necting at the latter place for New Bedford, Taunton,Providence and Buzzards Bay. Connections may also bemade with the line running through to historic Plymouth,described elsewhere. Another line runs through Abing-ton. The original planks on the old frigate Constitu-tion were cut in this place. Here the first bell was castin the colony by Col. Aaron Hobart, who taught PaulRevere the art. EASTERN NEW ENGLAND 43 THROUGH THE OLD COLONY TOWNS FROM BOSTON THROUGH BROCKTON, BRIDGEWATER,MIDDLEBORO AND THE LAKE REGION TO NEWBEDFORD, MARION, ONSET BAY, BUZZARDS BAYAND MONUMENT BEACH. From whatever part of the country the tourist maycome he will not wish to return home without having takena trip through the section indicated above. It is full ofhistorical places, delightful summer resorts, beautiful scen- Text Appearing After Image: Adams Academy, Quincy ery and the homes of such popular men as Richard Hard-ing Davis, Joseph Jefferson and Grover Cleveland. Instead of the dusty railway journey one may makethe pleasant trip all the way from Boston by the broom-stick train. Taking a Neponset car at the Elevated sta-tion at Dudley Street (see Where to Get a Car), the set- 44 BY TROLLEY THROUGH ting of nearly three centuries of the countrys history liesbefore the traveller. The ride is out through Dorchesterto the Neponset River, where a change is made to a carfor Brockton. Passing the grass-banked river, the saltmarshes and the Wollaston Golf Club on the hill to theright, the car comes to Atlantic, where a branch line runsoff to Squantum. This popular summer resort is the placewhere Myles Standish landed in 1621. This was the assem-bling place for the Indian powwows, and it was here that the Pilgrims feast was / ■ celebrated for many ye-arsin memory of the landingof the Pilgrims at Plym-outh. The long peninsulais t Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: By trolley through eastern New England (1904) (14589850580)
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