Trolley trips through New England .. . Town Hall—wellesley—Italian Gardens Worcester to Boston by Air Line—the speed way. At the City Hall we take a car marked Boston, pass the finenew Union Station, and running out Shrewsbury Street, shortlycome in sight of the river-like Lake Qninsigamond, which isseven miles long and one of Worcesters chief between the hills and dotted with islands, it has manycottages and club houses on its shores. Shrewsbury is soon reached. Among the old houses is thebirthplace of Levi Pease, who started the first line of mailstages from Boston to New
Trolley trips through New England .. . Town Hall—wellesley—Italian Gardens Worcester to Boston by Air Line—the speed way. At the City Hall we take a car marked Boston, pass the finenew Union Station, and running out Shrewsbury Street, shortlycome in sight of the river-like Lake Qninsigamond, which isseven miles long and one of Worcesters chief between the hills and dotted with islands, it has manycottages and club houses on its shores. Shrewsbury is soon reached. Among the old houses is thebirthplace of Levi Pease, who started the first line of mailstages from Boston to New York, in 1784. In Westboro, nexton our ride, Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, was born. Southboro is largely a pastoral community and contains abouttwo hundred farms, ranging in size up to one thousand acres—among them the celebrated Deerfoot Farm. The Air Linedoes not run thro Southboro, but about one mile south of it,at Whites Corner, a transfer point. A step up the hill, andone seems in the midst of a vast solitude
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