The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . lighton and Sons companyof Nashua. The foundations werelaid and the monuments placed inposition by the Highway Departmentof the state government. The state can pay no higher tributeto her most illustrious son than toname for him her greatest avenue of 226 GRANITE MONTHLY travel. Over it he journeyed, for many Hampshire and gave to her suchyears between his home in Massa- noble features. It is nature, thechusetts and his home in New Hanap- painter, that, in the course of each re-shire. He always admired it as he volvin
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . lighton and Sons companyof Nashua. The foundations werelaid and the monuments placed inposition by the Highway Departmentof the state government. The state can pay no higher tributeto her most illustrious son than toname for him her greatest avenue of 226 GRANITE MONTHLY travel. Over it he journeyed, for many Hampshire and gave to her suchyears between his home in Massa- noble features. It is nature, thechusetts and his home in New Hanap- painter, that, in the course of each re-shire. He always admired it as he volving year, illuminates those tea-went, and well he might. tures with all the colors of the rain-It lies in the broad basin of the how. Merrimack; it follows the indented Over this road, in wagons and shores of the lakes; it winds in and in sleighs, once went the commerce out among the foothills; it ascends of the north. Then it sought the the steep valley of the Pemigewassct; river and the rail. Now, with the it threads the Franconia notch; it improvement of the road bed and. passes close to the Flume, the Pool,the Old Man of the Mountain, EchoLake and the giants of the Presi-dential Range; it crosses the rich in-tervales of the Connecticut, and islost among the green hills of Ver-mont. In short, for nearly two hun-dred miles within our borders, ittraverses a region of unequaled andmagnificent beauty. It was nature,the sculptor, that fashioned New the advent of trucks, it is comingback again. It will doubtless remain andincrease. Flere will pass at leastthe local traffic of the this road, too, during eachvacation season, there will come,as there does at present, a multi-tude of people from every sectionof our own country as well asevery quarter of the globe. It is THE DANIEL WEBSTER HIGHWAY 11/ assuredly fitting that the state no similar, evidence of another habi- shoukl dedicate this great high- ration between it and the settlements way, now properly designated and on
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