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Title: King’s handbook of Boston harbor
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897 King, Moses, 1853-1909 Copeland, Charles, 1858-1929, ill
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, publisher
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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lar town of Win-throp. It is beautifully diversified with hills and meadows,isthmuses and coves; and, although but 989 acres in area, it, /* has eight miles of beach. The thousand inhabitants of thissea-girt corporation are served by an odd little narrow-gauge railway, diver-ging from the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railway at Winthrop Junc-tion, and running hourly trains down over the marshes to Great Head andPoint Shirley, stopping at every street. A branch line leaves the EasternRailroad, back of Revere Beach, and runs down into Winthrop, headingtoward Point Shirley, which it will probably reach within a few months. The chief village stands on the pleasant high ground nearly midwaybetween the sea and the harbor, and commands fine views in either direc-tion, on one side to Nahant and Marblehead, and over the open ocean; andon the other to the fortified islands and the Blue Hills of Mil- ion. It is a pretty New-Eng- ggQ| land hamlet, without a touch of suburbanism, and as rural and
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A Fishermans Home, Point Shirley simple as if it were inwalled bythe distant hills of Berkshire or Aroos-took. Two or three country stores, ableak town-hall, two comfortable wooden churches, afew dignified and emparked mansions, half a dozen residences of village magnates, and several score of neat and emboweredhouses of the yeomanry, — these elements compose the familiar picture, thesame here as in hundreds of other places in these six Yankee sovereignties.Within short cannon-shot of the State House, and overlooking the great Il6 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. channel of commerce and its procession of ships, remains a village inwhich Judds Margaret might find herself at home. The ghost of Gov.Winthrop, flying from Irish-Italian-Portuguese Boston, may rest here, onhis sons summer farm, and say, What! and grown so little in a quarter ofa millennium ! It is still remarkably free from the foreign element, andconsequently enjoys almost a complete immunity from pauperism and crime.Liqu
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