Berlin, Bolton, & Feltonville Stage Ledger, 1854-1867
1 vol. (0.25 linear feet).
Stage coach line that carried passengers and mail from Berlin, Bolton, and Feltonville (Hudson) to the Boston area. Includes account book documenting expenses of running the line, with passenger fares recorded elsewhere. Last several pages contain an individual’s accounts, as well as photocopies of passages about the stage coach line and a poem written when the company folded. Amos Sawyer, Jr., and his son-in-law Lorren Arnold ran the business.
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Subjects- Berlin (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Bolton (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Freight and freightage--Massachusetts
- Stagecoach lines--Massachusetts
Contributors- Berlin, Bolton, & Feltonville Stage
Types of material
Call no.: MS 138
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Boston & Albany Railroad Engineering Department Map Collection, 1833-1920
19 v.
The Boston and Albany Railroad was formed between 1867 and 1870 from the merger of three existing lines, the Boston and Worcester (chartered 1831), the Western (1833), and the Castleton and West Stockbridge (1834). The corporation was a primary east-west transit through the Commonwealth, with branches connecting towns including Athol, Ware, North Adams, and Hudson, N.Y.
The nineteen atlases comprising this collection include detailed plans documenting the location and ownership of rights of way, land-takings, and other land transfers to or from the railroad company. Dating from the early years of operation for the corporation to just after the turn of the century, the atlases include maps of predecessor lines (Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation and Western Rail-Road), as well as the Grand Junction Railway Company (Charlestown, Somerville, Everett, and Chelsea), the Ware River Railroad, and the Chester and Becket Railroad.
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Subjects- Boston and Albany Railroad Co.--Maps
- Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation--Maps
- Chester and Becket Railroad--Maps
- Grand Junction Railway Company--Maps
- Railroads--Massachusetts--Maps
- Real property--Massachusetts--Maps
- Ware River Railroad--Maps
- Western Rail-Road Corporation--Maps
Contributors- Boston & Albany Railroad Company. Engineering Department
Types of material
Call no.: MS 130
View related collections: Massachusetts, Transport : : No Comments
Boston and Maine Railroad Fitchburg Division Records, 1918-1958
1 box (0.5 linear feet).
Chartered in June 1835, the Boston and Maine Railroad was the dominant railroad of northern New England for nearly one hundred years. This collection consists of records from the Engineering Department of the Fitchburg Division relating to the maintenance of bridges in Massachusetts, including correspondence, accident reports, financial records and progress reports on work recommended by bridge inspectors.
Subjects- Railroad companies--United States--History--20th century
Contributors- Boston and Maine Railroad. Fitchburg Division
Call no.: MS 475
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Alfred Alexander Brown Papers, 1955-1993
2 boxes (0.75 linear feet).
Before his graduate work at Amherst College and Harvard University, Alfred Brown received both his bachelor’s (1931) and master’s (1933) degrees from Massachusetts State College in animal husbandry and agricultural economics. In 1935, he returned to his alma mater as assistant research professor in Agricultural Economics, earning promotion to full professor in 1948, with a focus on Marketing and Transportation. During World War II, Brown served as a transportation economist with the War Food Administration and as a consultant for the Office of Defense Transportation. Although Brown retired from teaching in 1972, he continued to work as a consultant for the United States Department of Transportation in Africa until his death in 2000.
The Brown Papers include published and unpublished transportation writings, correspondence, biographical and personal notes as well as notes for research and teaching, newsclippings, motion picture films, and slides. Also included among the papers are files related to Brown’s university service, including the Alumni War Memorial Fund, the University Centennial Committee, and the Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa.
Subjects- Massachusetts State College--Faculty
- Massachusetts State College. Department of Agricultural Economics
- University of Massachusetts Amherst--Faculty
- University of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of Agricultural Economics
Contributors- Brown, Alfred Alexander, 1908-
Call no.: FS 043
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Fifth Massachusetts Turnpike Company Records, 1 vol. (0.15 linear feet).
Authorized to construct a road from Athol to Greenfield in March of 1799, the Fifth Massachusetts Turnpike Company worked through miles of rough terrain and few settlements. Opening up areas previously accessible only through the Connecticut River, the Fifth Massachusetts Turnpike was ready for traffic in little over a year. The collection consists primarily of one volume of records of the directors of the Fifth Massachusetts Turnpike, including minutes of meetings, accounts of tolls collected, and drafts of letters.
SubjectsContributors- Fifth Massachusetts Turnpike Company
Call no.: MS 088
