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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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r the Sound andthree States. Beyond No. Stonington, we soon cross the Paw-catuck, and entering Rhode Island, come to its most Westerlysettlement. The car continues down to Watch Hill. At Pleasant View Jc. one may switch, if preferred, tothe car for the long Atlantic Beach at Pleasant View, with itsexcellent Casino, where one may dance, or loaf in one of thecomfortable porch chairs, listen to the music and look at thesea. Good surf bathing here. The car goes thro to Weekapaug,where is a noted Inn, near the great Quonochontaug Pond.-45 Norwich, lv. Franklin Sq. 20-50 Watch Hill, lv. -00 Hospital Cor (5c.15m.) 45-15 Westerly, (ioc.25m.) -05 Hallville (ioc.2om.) -38 Westerly, lv. P. O. -35 N. Stonington (250.50111.) -46 White Rock (5c.8m.) -50 White Rock (30c.1h.5m.) -55 N. Stonington (ioc.i7m.) -52 Westerly (35c.1h.7m.) -52 Westerly (35c.1h.7m.) 22-52 Westerly, lv. P. O. -30 Hospital Cor. (30C52m.) 50-20 Watch Hill (ioc.28m.) -43 Norwich (35c.1hr.5m.) New York to Boston via New London 63
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HOTELS OF WATCH HILL —WATCH HILL, R. I.— There is not, to our knowledge, any shore resort in NewEngland possessing quite the particular charm of Watch Hill,(Ocean House, Watch Hill). Its splendid hotels; its little Mid-way, quiet, not vulgar; its green lawns running to the Sfa—attract both grave and gay. The beach, on the western side, is protected against the At-lantic surge, has a clean sandy bottom, no undertow, and givesunsurpassed bathing. Tis a poor Sunday on which hundredsdo not disport together in the softly swelling surf, breast thebreakers and revel in the rollers. A few strokes out, float thediving platforms and shoot-the-chutes. On the sands recline,stand, stroll the fashionable element—for Dame Fashion sum-mers here, and at the great hotels many festivities cro.vd thesummer weeks. Many of the homes of this select colony are most ornate,the hotels of a quiet elegance. And all—hotel, cottage, vila—lie in a green frame that runs to the very sea, and blends intore

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