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HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



It was called Jerusalem Road Extension when it was 

 finished in 1891, but it has been legally named Atlantic 

 Avenue because it lies next to the Atlantic Ocean, and be- 

 cause it is practically a lengthening of Atlantic Avenue 

 which had already been built from the Cove to Little 

 Harbor. 



Some sort of a cartway had been in use over Beach 

 Islands since the beginning of Cohasset haying. In later 

 years when Cuba Dam was built, a narrow way stretched 

 along the top of the dam across the guzzle. A respectable 

 wooden bridge was thrown across this channel after the 



dam was cut away 

 in 185 1 ; but now 

 when the new 

 Beach Island road 

 was made, a new 

 iron bridge, 

 called Cunning- 

 ham Bridge, was 

 built at a cost of 

 about eight thou- 

 sand dollars, half 

 of the eight 

 being spent upon 

 the abutments. 

 The whole cost 

 of the road was 

 over seventeen thousand dollars, but there is not another 

 mile of driveway to be found in Massachusetts to com- 

 pare with it for beauty and variety of scenery. 



A change in the care of our streets was made in the 

 year 1890, when the old system of electing three or four 

 surveyors for different parts of the town to make and 

 to keep the highways was abandoned. Since then one 

 superintendent of streets for the whole town has been 

 elected and a more uniform method of providing good 



Photo, Addison Aldrich. 



Walnut Angle, junction of Jerusalem Road 

 AND Atlantic Avenue. 



