Identifier: suburbanhomesono01oldc (find matches)
Title: Suburban homes on the "Old Colony." A directory for those who seek a suburban residence
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Old Colony Railroad Company. Passenger Dept. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Old Colony Railroad Company Railroad stations Suburban homes Cities and towns
Publisher: Boston, Passenger Dept., Old Colony Railroad
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ber pays in a small sum per month, and each monththe total amount is loaned to some member (or several members, ifthere is sufficient money) to build a house, which he may occupy uponits completion; and instead of paying rent into the pocket of a land-lord and having nothing to show for it afterward, he pays about anequal amount to the co-operative bank monthly, a portion of which isfor interest, but a large part goes toward paying the principal, and atthe end of ten or eleven years he owns his home. There are in Boston and southeastern Massachusetts the followingnamed co-operative banks : — In Boston, the Germania, Guardian, Homestead, Mer-chants, Pioneer, Suffolk, West Roxbury and Working-mens; in Brockton, the Campello and the Security ; in FallRiver, the Peoples and the Troy; in Lowell, the Lowell; inNew Bedford, the New Bedford; in Plymouth, the Plymouth;in Sandwich, the Sandwich; in Stoughton, the Stoughton; inTaunton, the Taunton and the Weir; in Fitchburg, the Fitch-bur;. 10
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11 THE M/HN him ANDSlIAWMUT, MlLTOX AND GRANITE BRANCHES. The main line of the Old Colony Railroad includes all the suburbanstations between the central Boston station and the Neponset River,and onward from the last-named point to South Braintree (see map),a distance of about eleven miles. The Shawmut Branch leaves themain line at Harrison Square, a Boston suburb, and runs through thebeautiful Neponset valley, closely following the river bank as far asMilton and Mattapan. The Granite Branch leaves the main line atAtlantic station, near the south bank of the Neponset River, and runsthrough East Milton and West Quincy to Braintree, where it againjoins the main line. These sections form a thickly settled region, thetowns and villages having beautiful situations after the heart of thecity is left behind, the Neponset valley, the Blue Hills of Milton, theheights about Quincy. and the shores, bays, islands and country locali-ties which all these heights overlook, presenting scenery unequall

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