This web page provides additional information and photographs
to complement Volume 12, Issue 3, of Bedford Depot News.
POSTED: JUNE 7, 2006
UPDATED: JUNE 16, 2006
Ecomonic Benefits of the Local Railroad
An article by Louise K. Brown originally published in The Bedford Minuteman on December 16, 1971
- Read a PDF of this article. If you prefer to download the article to your computer for later reading, right-click (Microsoft Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) on this link.
- View a slide show of Shady Hill as it was in June 2006. A high-speed Internet connection will benefit your experience.
- See a sketch of the Shady Hill grounds that was drawn from memory by Town historian John F. Brown (son of the late Louise K. Brown). Note the trolley line that once operated on Concord Road.
- The Middlesex & Boston Street Railway had a stop in front of Shady Hill Nursery. We are fortunate to have a book of tickets from this line. (Tickets were donated to FBDP by Bruce C. Bowden.)
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