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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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ll City Hospital andthe city pumping station on the left, the car runs byKcnoza Trotting Park and comes to Columbia Heights,the highest point of land in Essex County, affording afine view of the valley of the Merrimac and the hills ofNew Hampshire. After leaving the lake the car comes tothe homestead of John Greenleaf Whittier on the left. Gurney Steam and Hot Water Heaters—The standard for efficiency and economy. EASTERN NEW ENGLAND 129 where the Barefoot Boy was written. It is to-day almostas it is pictured in Snow-Bound, for the Whittier Memo-rial Society of Haverhill takes great care in preserving thehistoric gift, and all the places of interest have beenthoughtfully marked with tablets. A short ride brings oneto Sanders Hill, from which a fine view is also had of thehills of New Hampshire on the left, as the car nears thedividing line between Haverhill and Merrimac. Crossingthe line the car runs over Tuckers Hill, with anotherbeautiful view and enters Merrimac Square, Merrimac.
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From here there are two lines to the sea. One runsto Salisbury Beach, climbing over Pond Hill, from whichis seen the stock farm of E. Moody Boynlon, inventor ofthe bicycle railway, on the right in West Newbury. Half-way down the hill is the Thomas Chellis House, built in1695, and just beyond a road leads off to the left to LakeAttitash, a popular summer resort, now accessible by elec-trics from either Haverhill or Amesbury. Passing the oldcastle of Sir Edward Thornton on the right, and going byUnion Cemetery, where Whittier is buried, the line runsinto Market Square, Amesbury, where the poet lived from1840 until his death. Wlachester Heaters never disappoint. 130 BY TiROLLEY THROUGH Here connections are made with cars running throughto Hampton Beach, and also to Exeter and Portsmouth.The line down the river continues through the great car-riage manufacturing town, and after passing the HamiltonMills, goes over Carriage Hill and by the Friends Meet-mg-House, and soon enters Salisbury,

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