Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . in thistown in September, 1770. Salisbury Beach is thirty-eight miles, Seabrook forty-two miles, Hampton forty-sixmiles, and Portsmouth fifty-six miles from Boston. Thebranch roads connecting with this road are the Saugus,Marblehead, South Reading, Gloucester, Essex, and Ames-bury branches. The Fitchburg Depot fronts on Causeway Street, atthe corner of Haverhill Street. The building, which isthree hundred and sixteen feet long, ninety-six feet wide,and two stories high, is of Fitchburg granite, and one ofthe handsomest depots in this c
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . in thistown in September, 1770. Salisbury Beach is thirty-eight miles, Seabrook forty-two miles, Hampton forty-sixmiles, and Portsmouth fifty-six miles from Boston. Thebranch roads connecting with this road are the Saugus,Marblehead, South Reading, Gloucester, Essex, and Ames-bury branches. The Fitchburg Depot fronts on Causeway Street, atthe corner of Haverhill Street. The building, which isthree hundred and sixteen feet long, ninety-six feet wide,and two stories high, is of Fitchburg granite, and one ofthe handsomest depots in this country. Several roadsunite with this road, and the Lexington and West Cam-bridge, Watertown and Marlboro, Peterboro and Shirleybranches; and the Worcester and Nashua, and StonyBrook Railroads connect at Groton Junction. COPP S HILL. IT Charlestown, the first place reached after crossing theviaduct over Charles River, is built on a peninsula formedby the Charles and Mystic Rivers, and is connected withBoston by two public bridges, by one with Chelsea and. Maiden, over the Mystic, and with Cambridge by a bridgeover Charles River. Somerville is three miles, Waltham ten miles, Concordtwenty miles, Groton thirty-five miles, and Fitchburg fiftymiles from Boston. Copps Hill, not far from the Fitchburg Depot, wasformerly called Snow Hill. It came into the possession 118 BOSTON SIGHTS. of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company; and 1when, in 1775, they were forbidden by General Gage to \parade on the Common, they went to this, their ownground, and drilled in defiance of his threats. The fort,or battery, that was built there by the British, just beforethe battle of Bunker Hill, stood near its south-east brow,adjoining the burying ground. The remains of manyeminent men repose in this little cemetery. Close by the tiiiiite
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