Transcriber's note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected. Carats (^) designate a superscript (example: y^e, in which the "e" is a superscript). Footnotes have been moved to the end of each chapter. THE OLD COAST ROAD From Boston to Plymouth by AGNES EDWARDS With Illustrations by Louis H. Ruyl [Illustration] Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge 1920 Copyright, 1920, by Agnes Edwards Pratt All Rights Reserved [Illustration] THE OLD COAST ROAD _From Boston to Plymouth_ CONTENTS BOSTON: A FOREWORD ix I. DORCHESTER HEIGHTS AND THE OLD COAST ROAD 1 II. MILTON AND THE BLUE HILLS 19 III. SHIPBUILDING AT QUINCY 35 IV. THE ROMANCE OF WEYMOUTH 57 V. ECCLESIASTICAL HINGHAM 75 VI. COHASSET LEDGES AND MARSHES 92 VII. THE SCITUATE SHORE 111 VIII. MARSHFIELD, THE HOME OF DANIEL WEBSTER 123 IX. DUXBURY HOMES 142 X. KINGSTON AND ITS MANUSCRIPTS 157 XI. PLYMOUTH 175 ILLUSTRATIONS A BIT OF COMMERCIAL STREET IN WEYMOUTH Frontispiece THE STATE HOUSE FROM PARK STREET ix MAP OF THE SOUTH SHORE _facing_ 1 DORCHESTER BAY 1 OFF FOR PLYMOUTH BY THE OLD COAST ROAD 18 GREAT BLUE HILL 19 MILTON ESTATES _facing_ 20 THE FORE RIVER SHIPYARD 35 THE ADAMS HOUSES IN QUINCY 56 THE WEYMOUTH WATER-FRONT 57 RATTLING ALONG THE OLD COAST ROAD 74 THE LINCOLN HOUSE IN HINGHAM 75 THE OLD SHIP MEETING-HOUSE _facing_ 76 INTERIOR OF THE NEW NORTH CHURCH IN HINGHAM, WITH ITS SLAVE GALLERIES 91 COHASSET LEDGES AND MINOT'S LEDGE LIGHT 92 MODERN COHASSET 110 DRYING SEA-MOSS AT SCITUATE HARBOR 111 FOURTH CLIFF, SCITUATE 122 THE WEBSTER HOUSE 123 MARSHFIELD MEADOWS _facing_ 136 A DUXBURY COTTAGE 142 A BAY VIEW TO DUXBURY BEACH 156 THE STANDISH MONUMENT AS SEEN FROM KINGSTON 157 OLD RECORDS 174 THE MEMORIAL BUILDING FOR THE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH, DESIGNED BY LITTLE AND RUSSELL, ARCHITECTS 175