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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—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 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 Historical Society, once the property of Jonathan Mayhew. |
| The Old South Church in its Present Condition. Built in 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, Harvard College | 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 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 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 Nameless Nobleman[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 Falmouth Captains 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 |
