The Century book of famous Americans - the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes (1896) (14566581790)

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Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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PARK STREET GATE, BOSTON COMMON.The State House in the distance. Under Rogers guidance, and with Uncle Tom as showman, they visitedthe sites of Franklins boyhood home and John Hancocks vanished man-sion ; they found the place in Court street where the house of James Otishad stood; they looked up the sites of Warrens, Everetts, Sumners,Wendell Phillipss, and Prescotts homes; of the birthplaces of Paul Revere, IN BOSTON TOWN 15 who roused the country-side for Lexington fight, and of Morse, who in-vented the telegraph — the plain wooden house almost in the shadow ofBunker Hill. And all these are in Boston! exclaimed Bert. Good for the Hub ! cried Jack. Is there any other town that canshow so many, Uncle Tom ? Whereupon Uncle Tom had an idea. He s full ofem, Jack declared ; but this just tops them all. It did seem to. For it was nothing more or less than a pilgrimage tothe homes of famous Americans. ^T&JMF- ;u *;, \ t \ -,\\
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A BOSTON HOME IN GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHERS DAY. I think we can do it leisurely and as we have the chance, said UncleTom; and I dont believe your fathers and mothers will object. We 11see about it, anyhow. So, while we are here, we may as well finish off Massa-chusetts by hunting up the homes of John Adams at Quincy, and of Daniel i6 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS Webster at Marshfield. I d like to see them myself. We can do it easily.What do you say, boys and girls ? What could they say but Good for you, Uncle Tom? They said it so emphatically and delightedly that Uncle Tom believedhis idea to be both wise and practical, and the fifth day of their stay inBoston saw them all at the Old Colony depot, en route for Ouincy, the oldtown made famous by the two Adamses — father and son.