XVI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

 The Fishing Industry 395 



Early Codhshing — Mackerel — Pinkies — List of Vessels built from 

 181 1 to 1819 — Foreign Freighters — List of Mackerel Schooners, 

 1819 — Prices of Mackerel, etc. — I )eiailed Account of a Ushing 

 Trip — Packing the Pish — Salt-making 



CHAPTER XX. 

 The Fishing Industry (continued) 419 



More Shipbuilding, 1S19-37 — 1883 — Banner Year for Mackerel, 

 1848 — The Portuguese Newcomers — Wreck of the Maine — 

 Fishing Business Waning — Dead. 



CHAPTER XXL 

 Stagecoach, Packet, and Railway 435 



Mail Carrying — Sciluale and Boston Stage — Hingbani Boats — 

 Jerusalem Road Stage — The First Wagon — Packets — The Forty- 

 niners — Foreign Packeling — South Shore Railroad — The Cele- 

 bration — New York, New Haven & Hartford. 



CHAPTER XXH. 

 Wrecks, Wrecking, and Minot Light 455 



Wrecks One Hundred Years Ago — The Gulf Tragedy — Under- 

 writers' Agents — Wrecking, Spanish Frigate — List of Losses — 

 Minot Leage — Wreck of the Immigrant Vessel St. John — Tho- 

 reau's Account — The Iron Lighthouse — Building the Stone Light- 

 house — Recent Wrecks. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

 The Civil War 483 



Abraham Lincoln's Cohasset Ancestry — Cohasset Slaves — South- 

 ern Sympathizers — First Enlistments — After Bull Run — Heavy 

 Artillery Men — Engineers, Sappers, and Miners — Navy Enlist- 

 ments — Three-year Enlistments — Nine Months' Call — Gettysburg 



— More Navy and Army Enlistments — Women at Home scraping 

 Lint. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 

 Up to Date 505 



Story of Churches to Date — Methodist — Unitarian — Congrega- 

 tional — Beech wood — Catholic — Episcopal — Some Comparisons 



— Schools — Building the Osgood School — Washington Library — 

 Debating Societies — Free Public Library — Waterworks — Sum- 

 mer Residents — Electric Lights — Recent Driveways — Changes to 

 come — Suburban Destiny. 



APPENDIX. 

 Botany of the Town. A Partial List, by Miss Priscilla L. Collier . 541 



