Lyman P. Powell

Ambler, Pennsylvania
September 21, 1898.

CONTENTS

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[Introduction]George Perry Morris[1]
[Portland]Samuel T. Pickard[53]
[Rutland, Mass.]Edwin D. Mead[81]
[Salem]George Dimmick Latimer[121]
[Boston] {Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Edward Everett Hale		[167]
[187]
[Cambridge]Samuel A. Eliot[211]
[Concord]Frank B. Sanborn[243]
[Plymouth]Ellen Watson[299]
[Cape Cod Towns]Katharine Lee Bates[345]
[Deerfield]George Sheldon[403]
[Newport]Susan Coolidge[443]
[Providence]William B. Weeden[475]
[Hartford]Mary K. Talcott[507]
[New Haven]Frederick H. Cogswell[553]
[INDEX:][A],[B],[C],[D],[E],[F],[G],[H],[I],[J],[K],[L],[M],[N],[O],[P],[Q],[R],[S],[T],[U],[V],[W],[Y][587]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Plymouth in 1622[1][Frontispiece]
PORTLAND
White Head, Cushing Island[55]
Deering’s Woods[59]
Showing brook which the soldiers had to ford in the fight with the Indians in 1689.
First Parish Church[63]
Containing the Mowatt cannon-ball.
The Birthplace of Longfellow[67]
Henry W. Longfellow[73]
N. P. Willis[77]
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 Pickering[153]
Some Old Doorways[21][155]
Bowditch Desk and Quadrant[22][158]
William H. Prescott[160]
Nathaniel Hawthorne[163]
From an engraving from a painting by C. G. Thompson.
Nathaniel Hawthorne—Birthplace of Hawthorne—Houseof the Seven Gables—Grimshawe House—TheOld Town Pump[23][165]
Seal of the City of Salem[24][166]
BOSTON
Succory or “Boston Weed”[167]
Trinity Church[25][169]
Boston in 1757[172]
From a drawing by Governor Pownall.
“Old Corner Bookstore”[26][175]
Oliver Wendell Holmes[177]
Public Library[179]
Map of Boston in 1722[180]
Charles Sumner[182]
Phillips Brooks[184]
Faneuil Hall in the 18th Century[189]
Governor Thomas Hutchinson[190]
From a portrait in possession of the Massachusetts HistoricalSociety, once the property of Jonathan Mayhew.
The Old South Church in its Present Condition. Builtin 1729[193]
Old State House[197]
James Otis[199]
Samuel Adams[201]
Boston Massacre[203]
From a painting by A. Chappel.
Landing of British Troops at Boston, 1768[205]
Map of Boston in 1775[206]
The Frog Pond on the Common as it now Appears[209]
Seal of the City of Boston[210]
CAMBRIDGE
Harvard College Gate[213]
Home of Longfellow[215]
“The Muses’ Factories.”—Lowell[221]
Statue of John Harvard and Memorial Hall, HarvardCollege[225]
Holworthy Hall, Harvard College[229]
Home of Lowell[231]
Washington Elm[233]
James Russell Lowell[235]
Gymnasium, Harvard College[237]
William E. Russell[240]
CONCORD
Concord River, by Thoreau’s Landing[245]
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, 1775[263]
From an old print.
Muskets of Captain John Parker[266]
The Minute-Man[28][269]
French’s first statue.
Hawthorne’s Old Manse[274]
Revolutionary Inn[29][277]
Henry Thoreau (1857)[30][280]
Graves of the Emerson Family[283]
Home of Emerson[287]
A. Bronson Alcott (1875)[31][292]
Louise M. Alcott[295]
Seal of the City of Concord[297]
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 Church[305]
The Old Fort and First Meeting-House, on BurialHill, 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 Seal[334]
The Landing of the Fathers, Plymouth, December 22,1620[335]
Copied from an old painting on glass.
The Fuller Cradle[337]
An Old English Spinning-Wheel[338]
The Doten House, 1660[38][339]
The oldest house in Plymouth.
The Grave of Dr. Francis Le Barran, the NamelessNobleman[39][342]
Seal of the City of Plymouth[343]
CAPE COD TOWNS
The Beach, Falmouth[40][347]
Map of Cape Cod Section[41][349]
Provincetown[355]
Wharves at Provincetown[359]
Provincetown in 1839[363]
From an old drawing.
Highland Light[371]
Oyster Point, Wellfleet[373]
Bishop and Clerk Light, Hyannis[376]
Old Windmill, Eastham[378]
Ruins of the Chatham Light[383]
Life-Saving Station at Wellfleet[386]
Bass River Bridge, South Yarmouth[387]
Barnstable Inn[389]
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 FalmouthCaptains who Sailed in Her[45][401]
DEERFIELD
Old Deerfield Street, 1671-1898[405]
Frary House, 1698[408]
Oldest in the county.
Third Meeting-House, 1695-1729[419]
(Old Indian house on the right.)
Parson Williams’s House[421]
Built by the town, 1707—standing 1898.
Door of “Old Indian House” Hacked by Indians[423]
Now in Memorial Hall.
Tombstones of Rev. John Williams and his Wife[425]
Stephen Williams, 1693-1782[428]
A captive of February 29, 1703-4.
George Fuller, 1822-1884[437]
Buffet from “Parson Williams’s” House[439]
Now in Memorial Hall.
NEWPORT
The Old Stone Mill[445]
Newport in 1795[46][447]
George Berkeley, Dean of Derry[47][451]
Whitehall, the Berkeley Residence, Built 1729[453]
“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 Newport[473]
PROVIDENCE
View of Providence[477]
From the south.
Roger Williams Received by the Indians[479]
From a design by A. H. Wray.
The Roger Williams Monument[483]
Stephen Hopkins[54][490]
Brown University[493]
Francis Wayland[499]
The Capitol[503]
Seal of the City of Providence[506]
HARTFORD
Main Street[509]
Old Center Burying-Ground[513]
The Charter Oak[520]
Old State House, now City Hall[529]
Built in 1794.
Statue of Israel Putnam[539]
J. Q. A. Ward, sculptor.
Keney Memorial Tower[55][541]
The Capitol[543]
Soldiers’ Memorial Arch[545]
Harriet Beecher Stowe[546]
Dr. Horace Bushnell[547]
From a crayon drawing by S. W. Rowse.
J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D.[549]
Arms of the City of Hartford[551]
NEW HAVEN
Temple Street[555]
John Davenport[557]
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’ Cave[567]
A Humane Enemy[571]
Phelps Hall[573]
Osborn Hall[577]
The Art Building[579]
Noah Webster[57][581]
Eli Whitney[583]
East Rock Park[585]
Seal of the City of New Haven[586]