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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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g Pond. Going on with the trolley journey, the car passes, onthe left, the fine stables and race track of the late J. Mal-colm Forbes, where some of the most noied blooded horses— Arion, Nancy Hanks, Binger and others — have beenbred, conspicuous objects in a charming landscape, andpassing the old Cherry Tavern, on the top of CherryHill, on the right, one soon comes to the little village ofPonkapoag, located among the rolling hills as they leaddown to the valley, being part of the Ponkapoag Planta-tion, a grant of six thousand acres of land set apart forthe Ponkapoag tribe of Massachusetts Indians in 1707 58 BY TROLLEY THROUGH by the town of Dorchester; on the left, partly hidden bya high fence, is Redman farm, the summer home ofThomas Bailey Aldrich, the well-known poet and author,where was written From Ponkapoag to Pesth, Ponka-poag Papers, etc. Passing the old burying ground, dat-ing back to 1700, where ¥« English Church stoodfrom 1754 to 1796, the car comes to Canton Corner.
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Entrance to Blue Hill Reservation Here on the right may be seen the Protestant buryingground, church, parish hall and public school, while onthe opposite side is the Catholic cemetery. As the carenters Canton, the fine residences of Charles H. French andthe Hon. Elijah Morse are passed on the right. Herea line runs off to the right to Canton Junction, connectingNorwood and other inland towns of southwestern Massa- EASTERN NEW ENGLAND 59 chusetts by trolley. Canton, set off in 1797, occupies thesite of one of the Christian Indian villages established bythe Apostle Eliot. Here is the estate of Augusuts Hem-menway, whose gift of the Canton Public Library, whichthe car passes, is a testimonial to his public spirit. Pass-ing the post office, the car soon comes to Cobbs Tav-ern, the junction of two trolley lines. The one running off to the left takes one through WestStoughton to Stoughton, once a part of Dorchester, which gave uppart of its domain to form the town of Canton. The early settl

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