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The time came in a few years when the second wooden 

 station was torn down and the present artistic little station 

 was built. So expensive an improvement would not have 

 been placed here so early had it not been for the influence 

 of Uriel Crocker, one of our summer residents, and for 

 thirty years a director of the Old Colony Railroad. Loving 

 the town for its natural beauty, Mr. Crocker lent his per- 



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Photo. Edward Xichols. 



The Onset op- a W^ave, Pleasant Beach. 



sonal efforts to secure one more touch of artificial adorn- 

 ment. It is perhaps worthy of comment that our rugged 

 shore with its rocky ledges was shunned in the early days 

 when hard Puritan utility was demanded, but that now the 

 very qualities which were despised are our chief source of 

 attraction. It was natural at first, when Cohasset was the 

 terminus of the South Shore Railroad, for many of the em- 

 ployees to be residents of this town. As the business has 

 increased the number of Cohasset employees has grown. 

 Even since the extension of theline to Duxbury in 1871 the 

 large percentage of employees have been Cohasset men, 



