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Identifier: phelpshundredcit00phel (find matches)
Title: Phelps' hundred cities and large towns of America : with railroad distances throughout the United States, maps of thirteen cities, and other embellishments
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Phelps, Humphrey, 19th cent
Subjects: Cities and towns Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : Phelps, Fanning & Co. Cincinnati : A. Ranney
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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Brookfield.West Brookfield.. Warren Palmer Indian Orchard... Springfield West Springfield. Westfield Russel Chester Village...Chester Factory... Becket Washington Kinsdale Dalton Pittsfield Shaker Village Richmond Siate Line Canaan East Chatham Chatham 4-CornersChatham Centre.... Kinderhook Schoodack Greenlmsh Albany I 1«4: 102l 200201 Boston to Providence. To Roxbury Jamaica Plains. Readville Canton Sharon Foxhoro Mansfield Tobeys Attleboro Dodgeville Pawtucket Providence Boston to Stonington andNew York. To Providence (asabove) Junction Warwick Greenwich Wickford Kingston Carolina 6 Richmond 3 Charlestown Westerly Stonington Thence to N. Yorkby steamboat.. ..1 Boston to Xew York, viaFall River. To Crescent Ave...Harrison Square... Neponset Quincy South Braiutree ... Randolph East Stousditon North Bridgewater Campello Keiths Furnace E &W Bridgewater Bridgevt ater Titicut Middlehoro Haskins Myricks Assonet Millers Fall River Thence by steam-boat to Newport.New York 1 18 7263 235
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So . ;. in DUtrict ot Ne*r York. 14 LOWELL, SPKlWbFIELD.—MASSACHUSETTS. LOWELL, Mass. Tiie seat of justice, with Cambridge and Concord, of Middle-sex county, and the second city in the state in pojmlation, issituated at the confluence of Concord and Merrimac rivers, 25miles northwest of Boston. From an insignificant village, in1822, it has sprung up into a wealthy and populous city, cele-brated over the world for its unrivalled manufactories of cottonand woollen fabrics, by which it has gained the title of the Manchester of America. The secret of its prosperity lies inthe vast water-power, which enterprise and skill have turnedinto available channels. By a canal which connects the Merrimacbelow Pawtueket falls, with Concord river, water is conveyedto the town and distributed to the various factories. Aboutthirty are engaged in the manufacture of cotton ; a number ofothers produce woollen fabrics of various kinds, as carpets,broadcloths, cassimeres, calicoes, machinery for railroads,

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  • bookdecade:1850
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Phelps__Humphrey__19th_cent
  • booksubject:Cities_and_towns
  • booksubject:Railroad_travel
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Phelps__Fanning___Co__
  • bookpublisher:_Cincinnati___A__Ranney
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System
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