Taverns and stagecoaches of New England
By: by Alan Forbes and Ralph M. Eastman
Contributors: Eastman, Ralph M. (Ralph Mason), 1891-1976
Published: 1954
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Copyright date: 1954
Subjects: Stagecoaches; Taverns (Inns); Coaching (Transportation); Travel; Hotels; History
Notes: "Presenting more facts and interesting comments on the era of stagecoach service over rough and bumpy highways when the hospitable taverns were welcome havens for weary travelers at the end of the day's journey."
Table of contents: title: Travel in the early days; title: Taverns and their landlords; title: Some taverns of old Boston; title: Bunch of Grapes Tavern, Boston; title: Green Dragon Tavern, Boston; title: Stavers starts Boston's first stagecoach line; title: White Mountain coaching parades; title: Eagle Tavern, East Poultney, Vermont; title: Shelburne, Vermont Museum and its Stagecoach Inn; title: Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, Mass.; title: Eagle House, Haverhill, Mass.; title: Horse Marine News; title: Publick House, Sturbridge, Mass.; title: Groton Inn; title: Buckman Tavern, Lexington, Mass.; title: Munroe Tavern, Lexington, Mass.; title: Pistol ornamentation of stagecoach days; title: Punch Bowl Tavern, Brookline; title: The "Old Ordinary," Hingham, Mass.; title: The Tree of Knowledge, Duxbury, Mass.; title: Doty Tavern, Ponkapoag, Canton, Mass.; title: The Morse and other early taverns of Walpole, Mass.; title: Israel Hatch, stagecoach and tavern mogul; title: Cherry Tavern, Ponkapoag, Canton, Mass.; title: Rare tavern signboards; title: Some Connecticut tavern stories; title: Other New England signboards; title: The coming of the Iron Horse.