Author: Burleigh Burleigh

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-18

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780484057707

Excerpt from The Old Colony Railroad: Its Connections, Popular Resorts, and Fashionable Watering-Places The Old Colony Railroad, opened in 1845 from Boston to Plymouth, Mass. (371/2 miles), and from Fall River, Mass., to Myricks, Mass. (12 miles), now comprises 300 miles of line, extending from Boston, the metropolis of New England, to Newport, R.I., and to all the principal cities, towns and villages of South-eastern Massachusetts; and, by its connecting lines of steamboats, forming the most desirable and popular route between New York and Boston, and the famous summer resorts of the beautiful islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. A glance at the map in front shows the two lines between Boston and Newport (via Randolph, Stoughton, Easton, Taunton, Dighton, and Somerset; and via Brockton, Bridgewater, and Middleboro', converging in one line at Fall River); the line to Provincetown (the end of Cape Cod); the line to Woods Hole (the mainland terminus of the Vineyard and Nantucket steamers); the line to "Plymouth Rock," passing through the Abingtons, Plympton, and Kingston; the Sea-Shore Line, through Quincy, Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, Nantasket, Cohasset, the Scituates, Marshfield (the home of Webster), and South Duxbury (the American station of the "French Cable") to, and intersecting, the Plymouth line at Kingston; and the suburban "Shawmut," "Milton," and "Granite" Branches. The terminal stations at Boston are complete in all their parts. Their ample proportions are demanded by the heavy business of the road. The rush of passengers, coming and going, is immense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.