STAGECOACH, PACKET, AND RAILWAY. 



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pany in Philadelphia. She had two boilers and two en- 

 gines, burnt wood as her predecessors did, and made the 

 trip to Boston in an hour and a half. For thirteen years, 

 from June i6, 1832, until the year 1845, the General Lin- 

 coln was run, and it was a popular route for Cohasset 

 travelers to ride in the stage to Hingham and there to 

 board Captain George Beal's boat for Boston. 



Of course in the winter, when Hingham Harbor was 

 frequently iced over, the General Lincoln was laid off and 

 people did but little traveling. The stagecoach for the 

 carrying of mail was the only regular winter connection 

 with our metropolis. 



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The Old Black Rock House, 1850. 



A branch line of the stagecoach going by way of Jeru- 

 salem Road was established about the year 1840, as nearly 

 as can be remembered, in charge of the late Warren Bates. 

 That stage was the first carriage on Jerusalem Road. 

 It was owned by Jones & Sprague, of Duxbury, and made 

 connections between the Hingham steamboat landing and 

 the through stage at Cohasset. This Jerusalem stage was 

 a three-seated wagon drawn at first by one horse, then by 

 two, then by three, and finally by four. 



It was about that time when summer visitors were get- 

 ting into the habit of coming to Cohasset, and both the 



