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Title: History of the Old Colony Railroad : a complete history of the Old Colony Railroad from 1844 to the present time in two parts
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Old Colony Railroad Company Industries Railroads
Publisher: Boston : Hager & Handy
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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f the state was seldom seen in theeastern market. This could not last, and had not the inventionof the railroad been made, Boston would not have been thenourishing city she is to-day; while had it not been for thepersistent opposition to railroads by the colonial type of legis-lators, who were the leaders in the landed interests of the state —and the landed interest was the most prominent at the time —Boston would not have surrendered so much of her commerce toNew York. The torch that kindled the fire of interest in railroads in thiscountry was applied unintentionally by those who were intrusted toerect at Bunker Hill that great shaft commemorating the birth of anation, who, in their endeavor to obtain the most expeditious modefor its construction, little thought they were creating in the QuincyRailway another monument far greater and more important —an epoch in the history of that nation, the stimulus of whichhas been felt in every department of national industry andenterprise.
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OLD COLONY RAILROAD. I 5 Mr. Gridley Bryant, the genius who planned and built the famousQuincy Railroad, the first in the United States, was not only abuilder, but also a self-educated engineer, was born in Scituate, Mass.,in 1789, and was thirty-six years of age at the time he undertook thebuilding of this road. The story of the enterprise and its develop-ment we reprint from Stuarts Lives and Works of the Civil andMilitary Engineers of America. The Quincy Railroad was commenced under the following cir-cumstances : The Bunker Hill Monument Association had beenformed, and funds enough collected to commence the foundation ofthe monument, in the spring of 1825. I aided the architect in pre-paring the foundation, and on the 17th day of June, following, thecornerstone was laid by General de Lafayette, and I had the honorto assist as master builder at the ceremony. I had, previous to this,purchased a stone quarry (the funds being furnished by Dr. John C.Warren) for the express purpose of p

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