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Title: Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Childe, Cromwell
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Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ectric road is to extend across fromWorcester to Hartford, a third from Worcester to Provi-dence. The journey over the new road takes about 2 hours, cost 35 cents,40 miles. The steam railroad is being competed with for frequencyand convenience of traffic. The points touched comprise : Worces-ter, Shrewsbury, Northboro, Hudson, Westboro, South-boro, Marlboro, South Framinghevrrv, Framingham,Natick. Wellesley, Newton and Boston. As an alternative, taking over four hours instead of two, the oldroute of last year is given from Worcester. To Marlboro,through Northboro, 15 cents, 16)£ miles, \y% hours; to SouthFramingham, 10 cents, one hour : to Natick, 10 cents. Here isa choice of routes. By way of South Natick, Needh&m, WestRoxbury, Forest Hills. Roxbury and Elevated into the Bos-ton Svibway. 15 cents, 2 hours. The second route is throughWellesley and the Newtons, 1^ hours into the Svibway, 10cents, the more attractive run—in Natick there is a walk of threeblocks to the Newton car.
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OLD JAIL (1653), YORK, MAINE, REACHED BY TROLLEY FROM BOSTON. About the Rub ROUTE 52. Suggested Trips Around Boston. Aioand Bostorv there is many a fine trolley trip. All lines startin Boston Subway under Bostorv Common. At the end)f Route 51 two lines are mentioned out to Natick that are fine>nes. Other possible trips are : Through the Mystic Valley, boarding a Medford car. Through2harlestown over Winter Hill, Medford, Winchester,IVoburn. This trip could be extended-o Nashvia, New Hampshire, takingLowell in on the way. Return fromWinchester by way of Arlington,nd Cambridge. Out to Concord via Lexington, >erhaps the most historic of trips. To Plymovith, 4 hours and 46 min-ites, 65 cents — into 11 Pilgrim Land.lake car to Milton Lower Mills. To Portsmouth, Kittery, York,p into Maine. An 85V£ mile tour intofork Beach from Boston, costing1.10, taking 7 hours and 36 minutes. This is one of the most beautifulrolley trips in the country. York is full of quaint buildings, in-luding

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