Identifier: oldfarmerhisalma00kittuoft (find matches)
Title: The old farmer and his almanack : being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas's Farmer's Almanack, together with extracts curious, instructive and entertaining as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941 Thomas, Robert Bailey, 1766-1846
Subjects: Thomas, Robert Bailey, 1766-1846 Almanacs, American -- New England New England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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of the road will lead throughthickly settled and populous parts of the town, crossingand running contiguous to public highways, and therebymaking a permanent obstruction to a free intercourse ofour citizens, and creating great and enduring danger andhazard to all travel upon the common roads. Furtherthey declared that, if a railroad must be built, it shouldbe located upon the marshes and over creeks, and finallyit was — Resolved, That our representatives be instructed to use theirutmost endeavors to prevent, if possible, so great a calamity toour town as must be the location of any rail-road through it;and, if that cannot be prevented, to diminish this calamity asfar as possible by confining the location to the route hereindesignated.1 In 1841 Mr. Thomas first inserted railroads into his Map ofNew England, thus admitting them to a kind of parity withthe stage routes which the map was meant to illustrate.(See opposite page.) 1 Josiah Quincy, Figures of the Past, Boston, 1883, p. 348.
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ON THE ROAD 303 In 1S44 the Almanac gives a table exhibiting the twelvehundred miles of railroad connected with Boston: — TABLE, Showing the length of Railway radiating from, and in connection with, the City of Boston. Miles. From Boston, via Albany, to Buffalo, 518 Portsmouth, to Portland, 104 Lowell, Nashua, Concord, ..... 62 to Providence, 41 Providence to Stonington, 47 Branch from Wilmington to Dover, N. H., 44 Dedham branch, 2 Taunton branch, and extension to New Bedford, ... 35 Bedford and Fall River, 13 Nonvich and Worcester, 58^ New Haven to Hartford, 36, and extension to Springfield, 24 miles, all not completed, but in a fair way, . . 60 West Stockbridge to Bridgeport, 98 West Stockbridge to Hudson, 33 Troy to Schenectady, 22 Troy to Ballston, 20 Schenectady and Saratoga, 21 Lockport, Niagara Falls, and Buffalo, 43 I,22l£ In 1845 there appears, along with the old Table of Roads,a list of Towns, &c. passed through by Railroads fromBoston, with the distances of the vari

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