. The Boston and Maine Railroad; a history of the main road, with its tributary lines . GEORGETOWN RAILROAD STATION, ERECTED IN 1850From a photograph taken about I 865. TOPSFIELO RAILROAD STATION, ERECTED IN 1854From a photograph taken about I 872 BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 25 As far back as 1845, also, an aojitation had begun for arailroad from Danvers to the main line of the Boston andMaine at South Reading, now Wakefield, but not untilMarch 15, 1852, was the Danvers Railroad Company in-corporated with power to construct a railroad from someconvenient point on the line of the Danvers and Georg
. The Boston and Maine Railroad; a history of the main road, with its tributary lines . GEORGETOWN RAILROAD STATION, ERECTED IN 1850From a photograph taken about I 865. TOPSFIELO RAILROAD STATION, ERECTED IN 1854From a photograph taken about I 872 BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 25 As far back as 1845, also, an aojitation had begun for arailroad from Danvers to the main line of the Boston andMaine at South Reading, now Wakefield, but not untilMarch 15, 1852, was the Danvers Railroad Company in-corporated with power to construct a railroad from someconvenient point on the line of the Danvers and George-town road in North Danvers, thence running through thetowns of Reading, Lynn field, and South Reading, . .to unite with the Boston and Maine Railroad ... atsome convenient point in South Reading ... Thetotal length of the road was nine miles, and the capitalauthorized, 1100,000 ; total length of the Danvers andGeorgetown road, twelve miles. The Danvers and Dan-vers and Georgetown Railroads were given power onApril 30, 1852, to form a corporate union under the nameof the latter road, and were also given power to enter onthe Newburyport Railroad at Georgetown,
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