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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

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thetrolley line passes Squaw Pond and along the famous Ox-Bow of the old Middlesex Canal, traces of which maybe seen from the car. On entering Wilmington the carpasses pretty suburban residences and attractive farm-houses, and also the Tim Carter House, said to be theoldest in Wilmington. From here one may take a car for Billerica and Lowell. Enter-ing the open country again one strikes the towpath of the almost for-gotten Middlesex Canal, which connected Lowell and Boston by awater way in the early part of the century. The picturesque and grass-grown wasteways are seen at intervals. Following the old canalthrough the country where the cattle graze peacefully on the towpath,the swift electric car takes one past one of the largest cranberry bogsin the state and crossing the rushing Shawsheen River. As the bridgeis crossed, on the right are seen the ruins of the massive gray stonepiers, all that is left of what was the great double lock of the canal. Winchester Heaters never disappoiat.
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EASTERN NEW ENGLAND 117 After a pleasant ride through fragrant pines and over country roads,the car goes through East Rillerica, and after a run through morewoodland, reaches a high elevation from which in clear weather MountTom and Mount Wachusett in Massachusetts and Mount Monadnockin New Hampshire may be seen, while there is a fine nearer view ofLowell and its vicinity. In the little village of Billerica one passesthe High School and the residence of Hon. Joshua B. Holden.Glimpses of the Concord River are had as the car runs through forestand fields, and just before entering North Billerica a tablet on aweather-beaten house on the right marks the birthplace of Asa Pollard,the first to fall at Bunker Hill. Crossing the Concord River and leav-ing the town behind, with its great Talbot Chemical Mills, the car goesthrough a part of North Chelmsford and enters Lowell, world-famousas the city of spindles. After passing the Fair Grounds and theButler School on the right, the car goes betw

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