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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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e Boston standpoint. It is now possible to go all the way by trolley from Boston toNew York iby purchasing a through ticket-book for $3.75. Nomore bother! It takes you via Providence, New London, NewHaven, three mighty attractive towns. See pages 50 and 66 for fuller details, or in Boston apply toBay State St. Ry Co., 15 Milk St. (Telephone 4559 Main.) A thro car to Providence leaves P. O. Square at 2.45 p. m., con-necting with steamer for New York.62. BOSTON and PROVIDENCE (via Brockton & Taunton) This is by all odds the quickest and most convenient route. On leaving Mattapan Square, the run passes at first thro theBlue Hills Reservation, with a glimpse of the Great Blue Hill onthe right, to Randolph. This little town was the early home ofMary Wilkins-Freeman, the novelist, and here may be found, i issaid, the prototypes of the New England school-marms, old maids,and village singers that dwell in her kindly pages. c.=cents—)ii. —minutes.—Figures, leaving times past hour 101
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THE END OF THE ROUTE MARKET SQ., PROVIDENCE The thriving town of Brockton, quadrupling its population in30 years, stands in its own shoes. The Brockton shoe is aglobe-trotter, for it is sold the world over. The town, by virtu?of its position and excellent trolley system, is the natural point ofdeparture for all places in the Massachusetts Peninsula. The Taunton short line leads over the old Boston turnpike.On the Green at Taunton (Taunton Inn) the first Union andLiberty flag was unfurled. The early settlers hene were fromthe iron district of Wales—the swamps hereabout were full ofbog iron—result: a city that for over two centuries has doneiron-working in all its forms. Rehoboth, our next stop, is a most remarkable little town, andonce came within one vote of being made state capital! Now after a speedy run down the pike and thro a fine oldfarming country, we wind a slow way thro East Providence, andreach Market Square, Providence. Pass—Boston to Brockton Pass—Brockton to Bosto

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