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Identifier: trolleytripsthro01hart (find matches)
Title: Trolley trips through New England ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: New England -- Description and travel. (from old catalog) Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Guyde publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he pretty Mountain Park, where incline rail-way is taken to Mt. Tom. Of all trips in New England, donot miss this! Our car, continuing, skirts the base of Mt.Nonotuck and crosses the famous Ox Bow, the main channeltill 1840. Northampton (Draper, rooms $1 up), is well known through-out the country as the seat of Smith College, founded throthe liberality of Miss Sophia Smith of Hatfield. A delightfullittle town it is, home of the sweet girl graduate, and dedicatedto the serene pursuits of learning. Greenfield (JVeldon, $3 a day), the terminus of the line, hasmany pretty residences under the maples. i A pleasant way of return is to leave the car in So. Deerfieldand cross the bridge to Sunderland, a mile walk. From Sun-derland we run south to academic Amherst, and from here wemay reach Northampton again, or climb up thro the Notch orDevils Garden, one of the finest trips in this section, throSo. Hadley, where is located Mt. Holyoke College, to Holyoke. 78 Trolley Trips through New England
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MT. HOLYOKE FROM HOCKANUM FERRY Mt. Holyoke.—Across river from Northampton, Mt. Hoi yoke rises to aheight of 1,000 feet, and on the summit may be seen the Prospect House,commanding from its verandas most delightful views of the Connecticut.An aviator has said of it: The view is precisely that from an airship—itunrolls swiftly all around the distant edges and seems absolutely limitless.To be reached from the Station, or by arrangement, auto will meet trolleyat So. Hadley, or Hadley. A pleasant week-end, indeed, to retire out of theworld to the top of the mountain, where the hotel dreams over the valle\Whateer betide,—the world outsideHere troubles cease,—here broodeth peace. BERKSHIRE HILLS 37. SPRINGFIELD and PITTSFIELD (via Westfield) Pass—Springfield to Berkshires Pass—Rerkshires to Springfield 10-30-50 Springfield, Iv. Court Sq. -57 Huntington, lv. 59-19-39 Westfield (ioc.49m.) -15 Russell (5ci8m.) -00 Westfield, lv. Park Sq. -25 Woronoco (ioc.28m.) -25 Woronoco (ioc.25

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