Identifier: pictorialguideto00bost (find matches)
Title: Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Boston : G.W. Armstrong Dining Room & News Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sone of the rides which one would not miss, for the route is pleas-ant, and Dedham is rich in history, and a delightful place inwhich to while away a summer afternoon. Dedham dates from1635. The Charles River, which flows through the town, isconnected with the Neponset River by a canal called MotherBrook. This was the first canal made in America, and datesback to 1639-40. The Charles River makes a great bend here,and the river meadows afford scenery that is both restful andpleasing. The town is separated into a number of villages: Ded-ham Village, Connecticut Corner, East Dedham, Oakdale, Ger-mantown. Walnut Hill, Ashcroft, Endicott, and Elmwood. Thereare many charming walks in Dedham, through the shaded streetsand along the rivers and canal. Dedham Village contains the town and county buildings anda number of interesting old mansion-houses. The visitor will besure to feel an interest in Memorial Hall, built as a memorialto the townsmen who fell in the Civil War; the artistic building
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154 GUIDE TO BOSTON. of the Dedham Historical Society, with its library of historicalwMDrks and manuscripts, a collection of antiquities and portraitsof local celebrities; the Ames house, built in 1772; the Dexterhouse, built about 1762, and, most interesting of all, the Fair-banks house, built in 1650, and now in charge of the Daughtersof the Revolution. VII. THROUGH QUINCY TO THE SOUTH SHORE. The South Shore resorts. Downers Landing. Hingham andNantasket, may be reached by trolley via Quincy, though aquicker, and, in fair weather, a pleasanter way of reaching themis by steamer. (See The Harbor and Beaches.) The run from Boston to Quincy, via the Neponset line, takesa little more than an hour. Take car at South Terminal Station,or on Washington Street, marked Neponset Bridge, or con-nection with this car may be made at the Dudley Street transferstation by taking the elevated. The car, after leaving DudleyStreet, runs to the banks of the Neponset River, where a changeis made. After cr

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