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HISTORY OF C OH ASSET. 



was cut through woods, around ledges, and over a swamp, 

 from Beechwood a mile to the Hingham line at a cost of 

 $3,352.46. 



Forest Avenue was a bigger undertaking, designed to 

 open for summer residences a large area of land between 

 Straits Pond and North Main Street where King Street 

 enters. The original lay-out of Joshua Fisher in 167 1 pro- 

 vided for a straight highway to Breadencheese Tree towards 

 the other end of Straits Pond ; but this new road was laid 

 out farther to the east, straight over hills and valleys from 

 the end of King Street to Jerusalem Road at the east end 

 of Straits Pond. The distance was a little over a mile, 

 but such a rough one, with so many ledges to blast and so 

 many hollows to fill, that it cost $16,580. 



The expectation of residences being located upon this 

 road has not been fulfilled in these twenty years; never- 

 theless, the highway is abundantly used and has proved its 

 necessity. 



Another road, built for the purpose of opening un- 

 used acres for summer residences, as Forest Avenue was 

 built, is Nichols Avenue, This crooked highway across 

 Cat Dam over one of the Beach Islands to the western end 

 of Sandy Beach was finished in 1882 at a cost of about 

 two thousand five hundred dollars, the five hundred being^ 

 paid by several private citizens. For ten years this en- 

 terprise proved a disappointment, as Forest Avenue had 

 done; but the beautiful summer homes that have been 

 perched upon the rocky knolls in that vicinity during the 

 last few years have redeemed all the promises which in- 

 duced the building of the road. 



Each added expenditure for the convenience of summer 

 sojourners has increased the income by taxes thus brought 

 into the town. The last and most expensive driveway 

 undertaken for the pleasure of these adopted citizens is a 

 beautiful stretch of macadam running along Beach Island 

 between Little Harbor and the ocean. 



