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Historic Towns of New England
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664575098
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION By GEORGE PERRY MORRIS
PORTLAND “THE GEM OF CASCO BAY” By SAMUEL T. PICKARD
OLD RUTLAND, MASSACHUSETTS THE CRADLE OF OHIO By EDWIN D. MEAD
SALEM THE PURITAN TOWN By GEORGE DIMMICK LATIMER
BOSTON THE TRIMOUNTAIN CITY By THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON
REVOLUTIONARY BOSTON “Then and there American Independence was born.” By EDWARD EVERETT HALE
CONCORD FIRST IN MANY FIELDS By FRANK B. SANBORN
PLYMOUTH THE PILGRIM TOWN By ELLEN WATSON
CAPE COD TOWNS FROM PROVINCETOWN TO FALMOUTH By KATHARINE LEE BATES
DEERFIELD OLD POCUMTUCK VALLEY By GEORGE SHELDON
NEWPORT THE ISLE OF PEACE By SUSAN COOLIDGE
PROVIDENCE THE COLONY OF HOPE By WILLIAM B. WEEDEN
HARTFORD “THE BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY” By MARY K. TALCOTT
NEW HAVEN “THE CITY OF ELMS” By FREDERICK HULL COGSWELL
| PAGE | |
| Plymouth in 1622[1] | Frontispiece |
| PORTLAND | |
|---|---|
| White Head, Cushing Island | 55 |
| Deering’s Woods | 59 |
| Showing brook which the soldiers had to ford in the fight with the Indians in 1689. | |
| First Parish Church | 63 |
| Containing the Mowatt cannon-ball. | |
| The Birthplace of Longfellow | 67 |
| Henry W. Longfellow | 73 |
| N. P. Willis | 77 |
| RUTLAND | |
| Dr. Cutler’s Church and Parsonage at Ipswich Hamlet, 1787[2] | 83 |
| View of Rutland Street[3] | 85 |
| Manasseh Cutler[4] | 91 |
| Nathan Dane[5] | 92 |
| Rufus Putnam[6] | 95 |
| Site of Marietta and Harmar, 1788[7] | 101 |
| The “Central Tree”[8] | 103 |
| The Old Rutland Inn[9] | 104 |
| View of Rutland Centre from Muschopauge Hill[10] | 107 |
| British Barracks[11] | 112 |
| The Rufus Putnam House[12] | 114 |
| SALEM | |
| Governor Endicott’s Sun-Dial and Sword[13] | 122 |
| The First Meeting-House, 1634–39[14] |
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