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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ng life. Go east to the ThirdAvenue L, or dive into the Subway, as you please. We are off! Those who take the Third Avenue L change at 129th Streetto shuttle train to station of the N. Y.. N. H. & H R. R-, also ofthe Westchester. This line represents the last word in electricrailway construction, and will repay inspection. Those who leave by Subway, may alight at 177th St., and taketrolley; or at 180th St., and board the Westchester there. Thecars pass thro Mt. Vernon to New Rochelle. From the last stop—North Avenue—a trolley car, or a briskfive-minute walk brings one to the center of New Rochelle. Thischarming town is situated in the midst of the beautiful rolling hillcountry of Westchester County. It contains the summer homesof many wealthy New Yorkers and of people well known in lit-erature and art. The town was settled by Huguenot refugeesfrom La Rochelle, France, in 1683, hence its name. Board here the Stamford car- We are on our way, 10 Trolley Trips through \Tew England
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Here we get a fine view of Long Island Sound, and also firstenter the old Boston Post Road. Along this, perhaps the mostcharacteristic of New England streets, galloped in olden days thepost, or rolled the stage-coach, from New York to the Hub. Thisfine old road, extending all along the shore, keeps throughout anote of peace and pleasant order. Its great days have returned,for under its quiet elms dash daily a thousand motor cars, whilehordes of trolley tourists traverse it each week. Larchmont is a pleasant shore resort and yacht station; dayand night the water pageant of the Sound passes to and fro be-fore it. A car runs to the harbor and yacht clubs. Next are passed Mamaroneck, named after an Indian chief;Rye (Colonial Inn), where still stands the old Haviland Inn, thefirst of many stopping places of Washington on his historic saun-ter thro New England in 1789; and Port Chester, last outpost ofthe Empire State, surveying from its heights Greenwich and theConnecticut shore. All these

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