Identifier: kingshandbookofb1882swee (find matches)
Title: King's handbook of Boston harbor
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897 King, Moses, 1853-1909 Copeland, Charles, 1858-1929, ill
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, publisher
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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r ofthe famous Merchants Magazine; Whitney, the author; Mrs. Ware, awell-known poet of the first half of this century; and many a notable Adamsand Quincy. The large white building near the shore, north of Mount Wollaston, wasbuilt in 1865, under the care of A. H. Rice, James L. Little, and others, asa National Sailors Home, for sailors of the navy, disabled by wounds,sickness, or old age. It possesses all the modern conveniences and manylittle luxuries, and has been very successful. Near to the Home is theancestral estate of the Hon. Josiah Ouincy, close to the harbor, and fromits venerable colonial windows giving prospects over the out-bound andin-bound fleets. The house was built in 1770, in a domain of five hundredacres of woodland and meadow, purchased from the original Indian pro-prietors by Edmund Ouincy in 1635. Here dwell old-time manners andvirtues, and the stately memories of the days of Washington and Lafayette. ICINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR, 93 IWTB.e^d-OctV Itonves-—
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BIRTHPLACES OF JOHN ADAMS AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS; ADAMS ACADEMY;GRANITE QUARRY,—QUINCY. 94 KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. Ouincy, the chief of the half-dozen villages among these fair roundhillocks and delicious fair plains, with its handsome Adams Academy,new public library, great brick hotel, and newspaper, is near the centre ofthe town, on the Old-Colony Railway, and about half an hours ride fromBoston. The quality of its citizens is shown on the soldiers monument inthe adjacent cemetery, which tells of forty-one men who died of battle-wounds, twenty in rebel prisons, and fifty-two of disease contracted in theservice, out of a contingent of eight hundred and forty-seven men sent intothe national armies by Ouincy. A little way back, and very conspicuous from the harbor, is the prettymodern village of Wollaston Heights, on the domain granted in 1636 toRev. John Wilson, the first minister of Boston, who was a native of royalWindsor, and a fellow of Kings College, Cambridge. The sh

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