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HISTORY OF C OH ASSET. 



Old Colony, but the stockholders of the South Shore were 

 not so anxious to make money as to have the road. 



An entry in Lieut. Thomas Stoddard's diary, October, 

 1848, says: "The South Shore Railway progresses rap- 

 idly ; the grading completed and commenced laying the 

 rails. The stock all paid in and the Cohasset depot is 

 building." 



The depot was the old wooden station shown in the 

 accompanying cut. One side of the station was built 

 over the track, making a large room in the second story 

 directly above the train. It was in this room that the 





The First Cohasset Station. Built iS 



celebration occurred on January i, 1849, when the road 

 was opened for travel. 



The following story of this event is taken from the 

 Boston Daily CJironotypc, January 2, 1849, written in a 

 sprightly style by an eyewitness : — 



After infinite palaver, as Carlyle would say, the South Shore 

 Road has got itself located and oi^ened. Is not this a proof of 

 the feasibility of republics ? The people in the one hundred and 

 one coves and inlets of our many-sided Boston Harbor are some- 

 what like frogs — the grant of a railroad for them caused any 

 amount of clack. Should it be here or there ? One would have 



