Nooks and corners of the New England coast
by Samuel Adams Drake
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This book contains fascinating historical vignettes about places along the New England coast. Some chapter heading include: New England of the Ancients; Mount Desert Island; Christmas on Mount Desert; Castine; Pemaquid Point; Monhegan Island; From Wells to York; Agamenticus, the Ancient City; At Kittery Point, Maine; The Isles of Shoals; Newcastle and Neighborhood; Salem Village, and '92; A Walk to Witch Hill; Marblehead; Plymouth; Plymouth, Clark's Island and Duxbury; Provincetown; show more Nantucket; Newport of Aquideck; Picturesque Newport; The French at Newport; Newport Cemeteries; To Mount Hope, and Beyond; New London and Norwich; Saybrook. The text is profusely illustrated with nearly 300 engravings of people and places. Drake was a popular historian of the nineteenth century with many books to his credit. D0399HB - $28.00 show lessTags
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Samuel Adams Drake was born in Boston. Massachusetts in 1833. He was educated in the Boston schools and in 1858 moved to Leavenworth. Kansas, where he was a journalist and merehant until the outbreak of the oivil war. He joined the Kansas militia as captain in 1861, and was promoted brigadier-general of militia in 1863 and colonel of the 17th show more Kansas volunteers in 1864. He returned to Boston in 1871 and devoted his time to his literary work show less
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