The Old Colony railroad: its connections, popular resorts, and fashionable watering-places (1875)
Smith, Matthew Hale, 1810-1879 · Boston, Press of Rand, Avery, and company · leaf 22
lje Citg bg ll^e Sea. This is the poetic name given to Oak Bluffs, on Martha’s Vine¬ yard, with its hundreds of cottage-houses by the sea. The sail from Woods Hole in the elegant steamers that ply between that place and the Vineyard and Nantucket, is simply magnificent. Buzzard’s Bay is studded… … OUT-DOOR LIFE AT THE VINEYARD. Penikese Island, immortalized by Agassiz, lies in full view. At the westerly end of the Vineyard is Gay Head,” pronounced by Webster one of the greatest natural curiosities. More curious than all is the new city of Martha’s Vineyard, Oak Bluffs. Thirty years ago a…
Old Colony Railroad Company · Fall River Line · Massachusetts -- Description and travel
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