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Title: A guide-book to Norumbega and Vineland
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Shepard, Elizabeth G
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Publisher: Boston, Damrell & Upham
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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^ point where the shore was boldand hard and where a ship could rest on aneven keel, making it possible to land at high orlow tide. Cambridge.
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Xr^ Strautney NORUMBEGA AND VINELAND. 11 There is the faintest suggestion of a landing eibridge ,1 1-1114-1 Gerry lived at now on the grass-covered river bank, and the Eimwood.phxce was called Gerrj^s Landing because all the the home ofland about was owned by Elbridge Geriy, who Lowell,lived at Eimwood, the estate which afterwardscame into possession of the Lowell family, andmade famous as the home of James Russ.^ULowell. Here he was born, and here, where hepassed nearly all his life, he died. In ^ SweetAuburn, almost within sight of ElniAvood win-dows, he sleeps. The house, surrounded by extensive grounds situation ofwith beautiful Enoiish elms of ancient o-rowth,is located at the corner of Elmw^ood Avenueand Mt. Auburn Street, and but a short distancefrom Brattle Street. At Gerr^^s Landing, goods were unloaded Former use of 1 I ^ ^ 1-1 Gerrys Land- trom boats and skows and transported into the ing.country for the use of the early settlers and for •traffic with the Indians. Here, t

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