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Title: Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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was Bigelows zeal and ardor in thegreat cause of the times, that he appeared on the fol-lowing morning, at the head of his ^^minute-men/ inthe square at Watertown, having marched them there,a distance of over thirty miles, during that one shortnight. On the nineteenth of April, 1861, the Bigelow Monu-ment was dedicated. At the very hour of the conse-cration exercises, the Massachusetts Sixth Regimentwas engaged in its memorable struggle and triumphantpassage through the blockaded streets of Baltimore atthe beginning of the Civil War. Along the west side of the Old Common runs Mainstreet, just out of which, in Pearl street, is tlie PostOffice. I have seen a curious computation with regardto that Post Office development, which aptly illustratesthe rapid growth of Worcester. The number ofletters sent out in 1809 was about 4,400. The numberof letters taken out fifty years later was 523,808.Main street reaches Lincoln Square, where stand thetwo court houses. The old one has been removed a
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BOSTON TO ALHANV. 87 few feci, and refitted. In it the criminal courts areheld ; there too are the oflices of the court of ))rol)ateand insolvency. The New Court House was built in 1845 of Quincygranite, at a cost of about one hundred thousanddollars. In it the civil terms of the courts are held,with numerous ante-rooms for the jurors and for con-sultation. The lower floor is occu(>ied by the office ofthe register of deeds, and by the clerks and treasurersoffices. Close neighbor to the court houses is the buildingcontaining the rooms of the American AntiquarianSociety, one of the leading learned bodies of ourcountry. It was founded in 1812. It possesses avery valuable library, especially rich on subjects oflocal interest to Americans. The newspapers filed hereinclude over four thousand volumes, beginning withthe Boston Neivs Letter of 1804, and closing with thegreat journals of to-day. This same society alsopossesses a very interesting collection of pre-historicAmerican relics. In

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