The Boston directory .. . ing. ADVANTAGES OF A RESIDENCE ON THIS ROUTE. No Railroad affords access to so many, so varied, and so splendid sea-side locations, or passesthrough so many pleasant cities, towns, and villages. Its Depots are within a mile or two of the cele-brated beaches of Chelsea, Nahant, Swampscot, and Marblehead. A Branch skirts the shores of Mas-sachusetts Bay, in the towns of Beverly, Manchester, and Gloucester, opening most magnificent viewsof the Ocean, leading to the most retired spots for sea-bathing, and to the most delightful walks anddrives in the native forests, that
The Boston directory .. . ing. ADVANTAGES OF A RESIDENCE ON THIS ROUTE. No Railroad affords access to so many, so varied, and so splendid sea-side locations, or passesthrough so many pleasant cities, towns, and villages. Its Depots are within a mile or two of the cele-brated beaches of Chelsea, Nahant, Swampscot, and Marblehead. A Branch skirts the shores of Mas-sachusetts Bay, in the towns of Beverly, Manchester, and Gloucester, opening most magnificent viewsof the Ocean, leading to the most retired spots for sea-bathing, and to the most delightful walks anddrives in the native forests, that can be found in New England. This shore is rapidly filling up withmarine villas and cottages. Farther east, at Ipswich, Plum Island, Hampton, Rye, Boars Head,Wells, and Saco — extensive beaches, good public houses, and healthful resorts for summer residence,afford advantages that are too well known to require description. RAILROADS. 47 FITGHBURG RAILROAD. Depot onCauseway and Haverhill, and extension of B everly Incorporated March 3, 1842. Opened for Travel to Fitchburg, March 5, 1845. OFFICERS. JACOB FORSTER, President. SAMUEL M. FELTON, Snperintendent. JOHN P. WELCH, Treasurer and Clerk. [Office at Depot.] [Office at Depot.] DIRECTORS. N. F. CUNUmGHAM, HENRY TIMMINS, ISRAEL LONGLEY, ALVAH CROCKER, E. HASKETT DERBY. There are four Regular Trains daily, each way, to and from Fitchburg, three of which connect at Groton, with the Worcester and Nashua,Stony Brook, and Peterboro and Shirley Railroads, and two at Fitchburg, with the Vermont and Massachusetts, Cheshire, Sullivan, Vermont Central, and Passumpsic Railroads. FITCHBURG RAILROAD. Season Tickets. MttES. Prospect Street,- • 2 • ? SomerviUe, 3 • ? Porters, 3X- West Cambridge, 6 • • Plymptons, 7K Waltham, 10 • • Weston, 13 • • Lincoln, 17 • • Concord, 20 • • Soutti Acton, • ? • 25 • • West Acton, 27 • • Littleton, 31 •• Groton, 35 • • Shirley, 40 • • Lunenburg, 42
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