On The Road North Of Boston

Author : Donna-Belle Garvin,James L. Garvin
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1584653213

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On the Road North of Boston by Donna-Belle Garvin,James L. Garvin Pdf

First published in 1988 by the New Hampshire Historical Society, and long since sought after, On the Road North of Boston is back in print. This richly illustrated, entertaining book is an invaluable resource for New Hampshire residents and students of the state's history alike. Nine extensively researched and meticulously prepared chapters depict historic taverns and tavern society of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England. Donna-Belle and James Garvin vividly reconstruct the physical landscape: the taverns themselves, the network of roads, travel conditions, traffic and commerce. They immerse the reader in the contemporary tavern atmosphere: encounters with fellow travelers, food, drink, entertainment, and hospitality in its earliest incarnations "on the road north of Boston." On the Road North of Boston contains rare and wonderful black-and-white illustrations of authentic tavern signs and furnishings, broadsides advertising tavern entertainments, early photographs and drawings of tavern buildings, road signs, vehicles, and bridges, portraits of tavern keepers, stage drivers, and itinerant performers. This book offers modern New England residents and travelers rich chronicles and visions of an age long past.

Author : Robert Frost
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465586186

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North of Boston by Robert Frost Pdf

"North of Boston" by Robert Frost. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Nevin Melancthon Fenneman,Robert Bradford Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Delaware
ISBN : UIUC:30112026957024

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Results of Spirit Leveling in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, 1896 to 1909, Inclusive by Nevin Melancthon Fenneman,Robert Bradford Marshall Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Geology
ISBN : UOM:39015035495459

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015025139646

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U. S. Army Register by United States. Adjutant-General's Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1520 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LLMC:NYA677PLJ50L

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In the Court of Appeals of the State of New York by Anonim Pdf

Author : Manchester and Lawrence Railroad Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:102233082

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Manchester and Lawrence Railroad V. Concord Railroad Corporation... by Manchester and Lawrence Railroad Corporation Pdf

Author : Laurie J. Bepler,Virginia B. Bepler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0738502561

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Route 7, the Road North by Laurie J. Bepler,Virginia B. Bepler Pdf

From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this agolden agea can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores across the country, survive as telling reminders of an important era in Americaas history. This fascinating new history of Route 7 from Norwalk to Canaan, Connecticut, showcases more than two hundred of the best vintage postcards available.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2598 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Securities
ISBN : MSU:31293004378711

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Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Jaffee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215383931

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A New Nation of Goods by David Jaffee Pdf

A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States--chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing--to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015013053577

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Railroad Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : James H. Charleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN : MINN:31951002938869G

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Recreation in the United States by James H. Charleton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Beverly (Mass.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4HZF

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The Salem Directory ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : IND:30000099548392

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric Jaffe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439176108

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The King's Best Highway by Eric Jaffe Pdf

A VIVID AND FASCINATING LOOK AT AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST STORIED HIGHWAY, THE BOSTON POST ROAD During its evolution from Indian trails to modern interstates, the Boston Post Road, a system of over-land routes between New York City and Boston, has carried not just travelers and mail but the march of American history itself. Eric Jaffe captures the progress of people and culture along the road through four centuries, from its earliest days as the king of England’s “best highway” to the current era. Centuries before the telephone, radio, or Internet, the Boston Post Road was the primary conduit of America’s prosperity and growth. News, rumor, political intrigue, financial transactions, and personal missives traveled with increasing rapidity, as did people from every walk of life. From post riders bearing the alarms of revolution, to coaches carrying George Washington on his first presidential tour, to railroads transporting soldiers to the Civil War, the Boston Post Road has been essential to the political, economic, and social development of the United States. Continuously raised, improved, rerouted, and widened for faster and heavier traffic, the road played a key role in the advent of newspapers, stagecoach travel, textiles, mass-produced bicycles and guns, commuter railroads, automobiles—even Manhattan’s modern grid. Many famous Americans traveled the highway, and it drew the keen attention of such diverse personages as Benjamin Franklin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, P. T. Barnum, J. P. Morgan, and Robert Moses. Eric Jaffe weaves this entertaining narrative with a historian’s eye for detail and a journalist’s flair for storytelling. A cast of historical figures, celebrated and unknown alike, tells the lost tale of this road. Revolutionary printer William Goddard created a postal network that united the colonies against the throne. General Washington struggled to hold the highway during the battle for Manhattan. Levi Pease convinced Americans to travel by stagecoach until, half a century later, Nathan Hale convinced them to go by train. Abe Lincoln, still a dark-horse candidate in early 1860, embarked on a railroad speaking tour along the route that clinched the presidency. Bomb builder Lester Barlow, inspired by the Post Road’s notorious traffic, nearly sold Congress on a national system of expressways twenty-five years before the Interstate Highway Act of 1956. Based on extensive travels of the highway, interviews with people living up and down the road, and primary sources unearthed from the great libraries between New York City and Boston—including letters, maps, contemporaneous newspapers, and long-forgotten government documents—The King’s Best Highway is a delightful read for American history buffs and lovers of narrative everywhere.