Historic Towns of New England. Various

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       Various

      Historic Towns of New England

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664575098

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       INTRODUCTION By GEORGE PERRY MORRIS

       HISTORIC TOWNS OF NEW ENGLAND

       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

       CAMBRIDGE By SAMUEL A. ELIOT

       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

       INDEX

       Table of Contents

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]