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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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d pleasure launches. A giantroller coaster and a merry-go-round are near the entranceto the park and are the delight of the children and youngfolks. The athletic arena for the exclusive use of thepatrons of the park has one of the finest ball grounds inthe New England states, and an amphitheatre with acapacity of many thousand seats. A private picnic groundwith a large shelter tent is provided for parties that desireto have their crowd together and yet want to enjoy all theprivileges of the park. Swings, benches and rustic seatsare scattered over the park in profusion, and everything thatwill add to the comfort and pleasure of its patrons hasbeen provided by the management. Leaving the park the traveller soon comes to SalemCentre with its great elms forming an archway over thehighway. The town was made from parts of Haverhill,Dracut and Methuen and incorporated in 1752, the charterbeing confirmed by the Masonian Proprietors in 1759.Continuing through a section of substantial New Hamp-
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EASTERN NEW ENGLAND 137 shire farms with apple orchards in abundance, one comesto Ayers Village, a typical Massachusetts community,where a line runs off to the right to Lawrence. ( For descrip-tion see Down the Merrimac Valley.) From here toHaverhill the ride is through a fertile farming country,with many pretty little farmhouses scattered along the road-way, and presently the city of Haverhill may be seen ahead.Passing the Tilton Tower on the right, from which a com-manding view is had of the surrounding country and theocean, one reaches Haverhill, where a change is made to athrough car over the same system that runs to HamptonBeach, connecting for Hampton, Exeter and beyond. Pass-ing through City Hall Square, in the centre of which is themonument of Hannah Dustin, of Indian War fame, one issoon in the open country with rolling hills, over which thecar swiftly moves, affording splendid views of charmingscenery and picturesque spots on every side. Before enter-ing Plaistow the car goe

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