Identifier: bytrolleythrough1904derr (find matches)
Title: By trolley through eastern New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Derrah, Robert H., comp
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel Guidebooks
Publisher: Boston, Mass.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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oring towns are seenin the distance. The line continues to Danvers, settled in1628. Here the witchcraft delusion flourished in 1692,and the Rebecca Nourse house may be seen, while near bystands the monument in her memory, as one of the vic-tims with Giles Cory, John Proctor, Rev. Mr. Burroughsand others who suffered death on Witch Hill. The ancienthomestead of the Putnams, where Israel Putnam was born,is carefully preserved, with the chamber containing theoriginal furniture. The Governor Endicott House, Endi-cott Pear Tree, Colonel Israel Hutchinson House, ancientNichols House, Oak Knoll, Whittiers House, and manyother interesting places of other days may be seen in thetown, as well as many town and private burying groundson the old estates. Lines run from Danvers Square to Asylum Station,where connections may be had for Lawrence and otherpoints along the Merrimac Valley, via Middleton. Marblehead and Swampscott are reached by one ofthe lines running along the seashore from Lynn. From
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A.-«- -i-rt*^ .-^-^-Jacb..... 150 BY TROLLEY IHROUGH Central Square, Lynn, the car follows the boulevard onBroad and Lewis streets, through the residential districtof the city, passing into Swampscott between the well-tilled farms on the left and the open sea on the right, withsurf breaking on the rocks below. Through Swampscottthe line passes many handsome summer cottages, going pastKings Beach, which affords line surf bathing. Egg Rockis seen across the water, and passing Beach Bluff and Clif-ton Heights the car enters quaint old Marblehead, with itscrooked streets, where connections may be made withbarges and the ferry for the pleasure grounds at Marble-head Neck, the car running through the town to FortSewall, with its magnificent ocean view. Marblehead waspart of Salem until 1648, and was once the most impor-tant fishing port in the state. Off Fort Sewall several im-portant naval engagements with England took place. TheTown Hall was built in 1727, and in Abbot Hall are manyinter

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