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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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First Unitarian Church, Quincy brings EASTERN NEW ENGLAND 45 ner on which are the houses of John Adams and JohnQuincy Adams — these houses are owned and maintainedby the Daughters of the American Revolution, and manyinteresting relics are upon exhibition — and goes throughopen country, broken by occasional glimpses of the greatquarries of West Quincy on the hillside to the right, toBraintree. This town was settled in 1640 on a tract of landowned by John Hull, master of the mint. There is a storyconcerning him to the effect that he gave to Judge Sewallas his daughters dowry her weight in the pine tree shil-lings which were the money of the colonists. In Braintree is the famous Trilobite Quarry, wellknown to ge-ologists. Here rcars may betaken for Wey-mouth, for-merly calledOld Spain,and the firstsettlement inthe Common-wealth afterPlymouth.The place wasfounded by
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Birthplace of John Adams and John Quincy Adams Weston, the buccaneer, in 1622, and in IoZZ, and itsoriginal boundaries are still unchanged. From Weymouth abranch line runs to Hingham, which is well worth visiting.Another line runs through South Weymouth to Rockland,traversing a section well known to sportsmen for duckshooting. Keeping to the main line, the tourist soon comes toSouth Braintree, where a branch line maybe taken to Ran-dolph, Highland Park and Brockton. The main )^ne fromSouth Braintree lies through a charming, fertile countryto Holbrook. The town was named in honor of Elisha N.Holbrook, who gave the Town Hall and Public LibraryFrom the hills of Brookville, just beyond, a fine view of thesurrounding country may be had. 46 BY TROLLEY THROUGH Montello is the next point of interest. This is theresidential section of Brockton. A fifteen minutes ridebrings one past Brockton Common into the centre of theShoe City, famous as the home of the Douglas shoe.Brockton is a street rail

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