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Plymouth in 1622[1] Frontispiece
PORTLAND
White Head, Cushing Island55
Deering’s Woods59
Showing brook which the soldiers had to ford in the fight with the Indians in 1689.
First Parish Church63
Containing the Mowatt cannon-ball.
The Birthplace of Longfellow67
Henry W. Longfellow73
N. P. Willis77
RUTLAND
Dr. Cutler’s Church and Parsonage at Ipswich Hamlet, 1787[2]83
View of Rutland Street[3]85
Manasseh Cutler[4]91
Nathan Dane[5]92
Rufus Putnam[6]95
Site of Marietta and Harmar, 1788[7]101
The “Central Tree”[8]103
The Old Rutland Inn[9]104
View of Rutland Centre from Muschopauge Hill[10]107
British Barracks[11]112
The Rufus Putnam House[12]114
SALEM
Governor Endicott’s Sun-Dial and Sword[13]122
The First Meeting-House, 1634-39[14]123
Governor Simon Bradstreet[15]125
Governor John Endicott[16]126
The Pickering Fireback[17]128
Old Cradle[18]131
The Roger Williams’ or “Witch House”[19]137
Witch Pins[20]142
Timothy Pickering153
Some Old Doorways[21]155
Bowditch Desk and Quadrant[22]158
William H. Prescott160
Nathaniel Hawthorne163
From an engraving from a painting by C. G. Thompson.
Nathaniel Hawthorne—Birthplace of Hawthorne—House of the Seven Gables—Grimshawe House—The Old Town Pump[23]165
Seal of the City of Salem[24]166
BOSTON
Succory or “Boston Weed”167
Trinity Church[25]169
Boston in 1757172
From a drawing by Governor Pownall.
“Old Corner Bookstore”[26]175
Oliver Wendell Holmes177
Public Library179
Map of Boston in 1722180
Charles Sumner182
Phillips Brooks184
Faneuil Hall in the 18th Century189
Governor Thomas Hutchinson190
From a portrait in possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society, once the property of Jonathan Mayhew.
The Old South Church in its Present Condition. Built in 1729193
Old State House197
James Otis199
Samuel Adams201
Boston Massacre203
From a painting by A. Chappel.
Landing of British Troops at Boston, 1768205
Map of Boston in 1775206
The Frog Pond on the Common as it now Appears209
Seal of the City of Boston210
CAMBRIDGE
Harvard College Gate213
Home of Longfellow215
“The Muses’ Factories.”—Lowell221
Statue of John Harvard and Memorial Hall, Harvard College225
Holworthy Hall, Harvard College229
Home of Lowell231
Washington Elm233
James Russell Lowell235
Gymnasium, Harvard College237
William E. Russell240
CONCORD
Concord River, by Thoreau’s Landing245
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1858)252
From a sketch by Rowse.
The Light at the Bridge[27]255
Redrawn from Ralph Earle’s sketch of 1775.
The Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775263
From an old print.
Muskets of Captain John Parker266
The Minute-Man[28]269
French’s first statue.
Hawthorne’s Old Manse274
Revolutionary Inn[29]277
Henry Thoreau (1857)[30]280
Graves of the Emerson Family283
Home of Emerson287
A. Bronson Alcott (1875)[31]292
Louise M. Alcott295
Seal of the City of Concord297
PLYMOUTH
Facsimile of a Page from Governor Bradford’s Manuscript, “Plimoth Plantation”301
The original is now in the Boston State House.
Pulpit Rock, Clarke’s Island[32]302
The Early Norman Doorway at Austerfield Church305
The Old Fort and First Meeting-House, on Burial Hill, 1621[33]307
Governor Edward Winslow[34]313
The Harbor[35]321
Plymouth in 1622[36]323
The “Mayflower” in Plymouth Harbor[37]333
From the painting by W. F. Halsall, in Pilgrim Hall.
The Old Colony Seal334
The Landing of the Fathers, Plymouth, December 22, 1620335
Copied from an old painting on glass.
The Fuller Cradle337
An Old English Spinning-Wheel338
The Doten House, 1660[38]339
The oldest house in Plymouth.
The Grave of Dr. Francis Le Barran, the Nameless Nobleman[39]342
Seal of the City of Plymouth343
CAPE COD TOWNS
The Beach, Falmouth[40]347
Map of Cape Cod Section[41]349
Provincetown355
Wharves at Provincetown359
Provincetown in 1839363
From an old drawing.
Highland Light371
Oyster Point, Wellfleet373
Bishop and Clerk Light, Hyannis376
Old Windmill, Eastham378
Ruins of the Chatham Light383
Life-Saving Station at Wellfleet386
Bass River Bridge, South Yarmouth387
Barnstable Inn389
Bird’s-eye View of Falmouth[42]395
The Village Green[43]397
Shirick’s Pond, Falmouth[44]399
The Whale-Ship “Commodore Morris” and the Falmouth Captains who Sailed in Her[45]401
DEERFIELD
Old Deerfield Street, 1671-1898405
Frary House, 1698408
Oldest in the county.
Third Meeting-House, 1695-1729419
(Old Indian house on the right.)
Parson Williams’s House421
Built by the town, 1707—standing 1898.
Door of “Old Indian House” Hacked by Indians423
Now in Memorial Hall.
Tombstones of Rev. John Williams and his Wife425
Stephen Williams, 1693-1782428
A captive of February 29, 1703-4.
George Fuller, 1822-1884437
Buffet from “Parson Williams’s” House439
Now in Memorial Hall.
NEWPORT
The Old Stone Mill445
Newport in 1795[46]447
George Berkeley, Dean of Derry[47]451
Whitehall, the Berkeley Residence, Built 1729453
“Purgatory”[48]457
Rochambeau’s Headquarters[49]459
Life Mask of Washington[50]463
Made by Houdon in 1785.
The Parsonage of Mrs. Stowe’s “Minister’s Wooing”[51] 466
Doorway of Old House on Thames Street[52]468
General Nathanael Greene[53]471
From one of Malbone’s best miniatures.
Seal of the City of Newport473
PROVIDENCE
View of Providence477
From the south.
Roger Williams Received by the Indians479
From a design by A. H. Wray.
The Roger Williams Monument483
Stephen Hopkins[54]490
Brown University493
Francis Wayland499
The Capitol503
Seal of the City of Providence506
HARTFORD
Main Street509
Old Center Burying-Ground513
The Charter Oak520
Old State House, now City Hall529
Built in 1794.
Statue of Israel Putnam539
J. Q. A. Ward, sculptor.
Keney Memorial Tower[55]541
The Capitol543
Soldiers’ Memorial Arch545
Harriet Beecher Stowe546
Dr. Horace Bushnell547
From a crayon drawing by S. W. Rowse.
J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D.549
Arms of the City of Hartford551
NEW HAVEN
Temple Street555
John Davenport557
From a portrait in possession of Yale College.
Roger Sherman[56]561
Photographed from statue on the east front of the Capitol at Hartford.
Judges’ Cave567
A Humane Enemy571
Phelps Hall573
Osborn Hall577
The Art Building579
Noah Webster[57]581
Eli Whitney583
East Rock Park585
Seal of the City of New Haven586
