Stage Days In Brimfield

Author : Mary Anna Tarbell
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ISBN 13 : 9781332199471
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Stage Days in Brimfield written by Mary Anna Tarbell and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stage Days in Brimfield: A Century of Mail and Coach The discontinuance in September, 1907, of the stage line which for nearly 60 years had transported the United States mails and afforded conveyance for passengers to and from Brimfield, east and west, marked the close of an age which the survival of this line had prolonged beyond its general limits far into the modern era. The age of the stage coach, thus extended over more than a century of time, consisting of several periods, each possessing special characteristics and reasons for interest; while the line recently closed linked the old time with the present by continuing at its beginning features of an earlier period, and reflecting toward its close the radically changed conditions of today. Naturally the line which continued this long age up to the arrival of the electric railway in Brimfield, was not sought by travelers after the opening of the modern means of transit early in July, hut the stage, suddenly deserted by people, continued to wind its way over the hills, looking like a relic of long ago with the cars Hying past it, in faithful performance to the end of the mission intrusted to a grander predecessor in the days of stage-coach glory. With the passing of this mail route there is closed also an age of manners and customs relating to travel and transportation. For the Southbridge and Palmer stage line, shortened to the Palmer and Fiskdale line in 1896, on the extension of the electric railway to Fiskdale, has served not only for carrying the mails and for the safe passage of countless travelers during its existence of over half a century, hut also for the transportation of commodities in such variety as would form a study for the historian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.