November 14, 1884

Email from Barbara Schmidt: 26 Feb. 2015 

"As to Brockton, MA -- I did find a reference to a letter SLC wrote to Pond complaining that the Brockton venue had not been advertised sufficiently, and thus had a low turn out."

Historic 1876 Boston and Maine Railroad Depot in Lowell, Massachusetts. Also known as the Boston and Maine Railroad Terminal and the Central Street Station. The High Victorian Gothic style building only served as a railroad station until 1895. Later, the former railroad station was occupied by the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Owl Theatre and the Rialto Theatre.

The building became part of the Lowell National Historical Park in 1989 and was restored over a fifteen year period.

Union Station describes two distinct defunct train stations in Providence, Rhode Island.

Springfield's Grand Union Station was constructed in 1926 by the Boston & Albany Railroad to replace an earlier Richardson Romanesque unique dual-station by Shepley Rutan and Coolidge, the successor firm to that of noted American architect, H. H.

This site, known as Horseshoe or Horseshoe Creek, served as the last station in Division Two of the Pony Express. Division Superintendent Joseph A. Slade lived at Horseshoe Creek with his wife, Molly, and family. (NPS)

Whatcom is the original name for the city of Bellingham. The name of Bellingham is derived from the bay on which the city is situated. George Vancouver, who visited the area in June 1792, named the bay for Sir William Bellingham, the controller of the storekeeper's account of the Royal Navy. Prior to Euro-American settlement, this was in the homeland of Coast Salish peoples of the Lummi and neighboring tribes. The first Caucasian settlers reached the area in 1854. In 1858, the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush caused thousands of miners, storekeepers, and scalawags to head north from California.

The land on which Everett was founded was surrendered to the United States by its original inhabitants under the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott. Permanent settlement in the area by European descendants started in 1861 when Dennis Brigham built a cabin on a 160-acre claim on the shore of Port Gardner Bay. Over the next several years a handful of settlers moved to the area, but it wasn't until 1890 that plans for platting a town were conceived.