Identifier: newenglandhandbo1880swee (find matches)
Title: New England : a handbook for travelers
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : James R. Osgood
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ican armyduring great part of the Revolution. Nicholas Brown, and others of tliat dis-tinguished R. I. family, having greatly aided the college, in 1804 its name waschanged to Brown University. Two thirds of the Boards of Fellows and Trusteesare required by the charter to be Baptists. The hall of the R. I. Historical Society is near the University, andcontains many relics of the Indians and early settlers, together with 6,000books, 30,000 pamphlets, and 7,000 MSS. On Hope St., N. W. of theUniversity, are the extensive buildings, surrounded by fine grounds, of theDexter Asylum (for the poor), near which are the ornate bnildings of theFriends Boarding School. The Butler Hospital for the Insane has largeand stately edifices, surrounded by 115 acres of ornamental grounds, onthe heights which look down on the widenings of the Seekonk River PHOMDl^CE. 1. SMe fifiisi- ■l.Cilynall.yJiisloin llnuic.\. SIfil, Jri.soii ■ (». K.l.H,:<iil,d. 7. Arcai/r. H. AlhciinPiiiii. 10. IhxhrA.stlvii,
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BOSTON TO NEW YORK. R(yuie 8. 65 (which is the boundary of Massachusetts). N. of the Butler Hospitalis Swan Point Cemetery, a beautiful rural necropolis on undulatingground near the river. The Reform School and the Home for AgedWomen are in the S. E. part of the city. Near the E. end of Power St.,on the banks of the river, is the What Cheer Rock, on which RogerWilliams first landed. N. of the Cove (near the R. R. Station), is theRhode Island State Prison. Environs of Providence. On the N. (4; M.) is the gi-eat manufacturing town of Pawtucket.Cranston (4 M. to the W.) is a busy working place, which has the Narra-gansett Trotting Park, famous in R. I. races. Tlie mile elliptical track isentered through a fine towered gateway, and the grand stand contains5,000 seats. Hunts Mill, ; M. distant, is a favorite drive. Steamersleave Providence almost hourly in summer for the popular resorts onthe Bay, and four times daily for NeA\^ort. Sassafras Point, Robin Hill,with its old fort, and Fields

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