Trolley trips through New England (1900) (14593171530)

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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n, Middlesex & Boston St. Ry. Co.,Newtonville, Mass. Telephone Newton North 780.) See also No. 72.Listen, ye trippers, and ye shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere. The world first knew it had a Lexington on a warm opening spring dayof 1775. Here, on the village green, stiil stands the boulder that marks theline of the Minute Men, and engraved thereon young Parkers manly words:Stand your ground, etc. Here, right here, was the true birth of Americanliberty and here may the idle tripper doff his hat for very reverence.Again in our minds eye we see Major Pitcairn and his 700 men, halted inthe Common, hear his sonorous Disperse, ye rebels! and after a liUlesilence, a scattering volley. . . . Going toward Bedford the car passes on the right Lexington Park, apopular picnic resort, with zoo, restaurant, rustic theatre, skating rink, andlookout tower, in the midst of fifty acres of pine forest. There are lunchtables and benches, spring water, and a free kitchen for basket parties.
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c.=cents—m—minutes.—Figures, leaving times past hour 113 kl -SO V-.. ¥*~-l ■ -,.• r::V-* . wr- -i ^^gpp^F THE OLD NORTH BRIDGE AT CONCORD The foe long since in silence slept.Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;And Time the ruined bridge has sweptDown the dark stream which seaward creeps.— Concord.—Alighting in Monument Sq., we stand opposite the old WrightTavern (built 1747). Here ends glorious Massachusetts avenue, along whichthe British regulars made their unforgettable march, and here Pitcairn, stir-ring his toddy, made his famous boast that he would stir the blood of thed Yankee rebels before night. The true introduction to Concord is at the old North Bridge, where standsFrenchs statue of the Minute Man on guard. On this side is the old Manse, where in the little old-fashioned window-panes are cracks caused by the concussion of musketry on that memorableApril morning. Now to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where Thoreau, Emerson,Hawthorne, Alcott, lie in fellowship on the hig

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