Historical Tours in and about Boston: Compliments of American Oil CompanyAmerican Oil Company
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Historical Tours in and about Boston: Compliments of American Oil Company
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Boston (Mass.) -- Guidebooks; Boston (Mass.) -- Tours
No one should pass through Gloucester without stopping here. Frank Davis
is an old-fashioned fisherman who knows how to prepare fish in an
appetizing manner. His mackerel, lobster and codfish are shipped by mail
and Railway Express all over the United States. Here you may secure a
souvenir booklet containing many delicious sea food recipes.
[Illustration: GLOUCESTER]
Proceed to Pearce Street where turn right on to Main Street. Follow to
the
Gorton-Pew Fish Company
To see the name Gorton is to think of fish. Here one can secure
permission to visit the canneries. The history of this great company
goes back to 1623 when the Pilgrim Fathers founded Gloucester. There is
every evidence to prove that the present officers are descendants of the
original settlers even though the present company had its organization
in 1849. It is interesting to note that the pilgrims shipped the first
cargo of fish to Spain in 1623.
Rockport or Cape Ann
[Illustration: ROCKPORT]
If you are not too tired you may continue on your way over the shore
road making the complete trip around Cape Ann, a promontory which
extends out into the Atlantic Ocean with its beautiful entrancing rocks,
beaches and rolling sea. This route is a most interesting panorama. You
will pass the largest lobster fishery in America. It is impossible for
you to get lost as the road winds around and back into Gloucester, where
you may retrace your ride along Route 127 to Beverly where you follow
Route 1-A to Salem. At Salem swing right on to Essex Street, leaving
Salem by way of Route 107 to Lynn. Leaving Lynn, pass over the famous
marsh highway where the government has been carrying on extensive
research for mosquito control. Continue to follow Route 107 through
Revere to Route 1-A where turn right for Boston until you come to Route
1 which follow to the Charles River. Here, instead of turning right on
Route 1, keep on across the bridge to the Boston side, turning right on
Charles Street, soon passing the Massachusetts General Hospital on the
left to Embankment Road where we turn right passing under the Longfellow
Bridge to Beacon Street. At Beacon Street, turn right and again left at
the second block which is Clarendon Street crossing Commonwealth Avenue,
Newbury Street and Boylston Street; turn left on St. James Avenue, and
you will arrive back at the Statler Hotel.
A DAY’S AUTO TRIP ON THE
_SOUTH SHORE_
★
Starting at the Providence Street side of the Hotel Statler, swing your
car around the island and go straight out St. James Avenue to Huntington
Avenue where you bear left and follow Huntington Avenue to Jamaicaway.
Pass under the underpass and turn right at fantail bearing right to get
on to Routes 1 and 3.
Jamaicaway
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