. Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity. e em-bodiment of sagacity, energy, and industry, with the blessing of abenign Providence, located in one of natures nooks, designeda city of greatness and grandeur. What city has so expanded from a settlement into a corpora-tion of 120,000 inhabitants with such regular and normal growth?What city in so short a time has caused the cabins and cottagesof its settlers to give place to so many palaces of frame, brick, andgranite structure? Where on the Atlantic coast has another villageof store and bl
. Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity. e em-bodiment of sagacity, energy, and industry, with the blessing of abenign Providence, located in one of natures nooks, designeda city of greatness and grandeur. What city has so expanded from a settlement into a corpora-tion of 120,000 inhabitants with such regular and normal growth?What city in so short a time has caused the cabins and cottagesof its settlers to give place to so many palaces of frame, brick, andgranite structure? Where on the Atlantic coast has another villageof store and blacksmith shop,grist mill and factory, given place toso many large and imposing corporations of industry so eminentlysuccessful? Where, have been opened so many miles of streets, orhewn through granite so many miles of sew^ers, or laid so manymiles of piping, or built so many churches and school houseswithout assessments for betterments? Where have so many sonsof settlers died in affluence, leaving no exact probate of the mag-nitude of their successes,—fearful, perhaps, that exposure would 32. Q I Eh O < O 72 excite the cupidity of strangers, inciting immigration in numbersimpossible of assimilation? EARLY HISTORY. The first settlement of Fall River was in the regular course ofexpansion from the Plymouth Colohy in 1656, when a grant ofland east of the Great Taunton River, six or seven miles inlength and extending from Assonet Neck to Quequechan River,was made by the General court of Plymouth to a number of free-men. In 1680 the Governor made a second grant to eight per-sons, of an additional tract extending southward from the Que-quechan to Dartmouth and Seaconnet, and inland (eastward) fourto six miles. Occupation attracted attention to these grants and the positionof what is now Fall River, was early recognized as eminently ad-vantageous for manufacturing and commercial pursuits; but earlyconditions, troubles with Indians and other causes, long and ma-terially delayed dev
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