Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . ai-^/.^r^fegs^j^-^csi^^^i^ >-*? NOR IM 150 GUIDE TO i\ C. B WEBSTER. ECHO BRIDGE, NEWTON UPPER EALLS. lock Gorge Reservation, of the ^Metropolitan Parks System,is in Newton Upper Falls. Echo Bridge, which carries theaqueduct of the Cochituate Water System, has a span of nearly150 feet across a rocky gorge through the Charles River ranges. Norumbega Park is reached via the Newton cars. It has anattractive zoo, a deer park, restaurant, electric fountain,rustic theatre, etc. Thousands are drawn to it in the summer,because of the d
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . ai-^/.^r^fegs^j^-^csi^^^i^ >-*? NOR IM 150 GUIDE TO i\ C. B WEBSTER. ECHO BRIDGE, NEWTON UPPER EALLS. lock Gorge Reservation, of the ^Metropolitan Parks System,is in Newton Upper Falls. Echo Bridge, which carries theaqueduct of the Cochituate Water System, has a span of nearly150 feet across a rocky gorge through the Charles River ranges. Norumbega Park is reached via the Newton cars. It has anattractive zoo, a deer park, restaurant, electric fountain,rustic theatre, etc. Thousands are drawn to it in the summer,because of the delightful trolley ride, as well as the attractionsof the place. Norumbega Tower, erected by Professor Horsfordto commemorate the settlement of the Norsemen, is on the westbank of the Charles, a little off the road to Waltham. The largeinscribed tablet set in its face states in detail that it commemo-rates the pre-Columbian voyages of the Northmen to the NewWorld: A. D. 1000 A. D. 18S9 Norumbega City . Country . Fort . River Norumbega = Nornibega Indian utterance of Norbega the ancient form TROLLEY TRIPS. 151 of X
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